Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Silvery GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Silvery John doryDeep Cut85points
- Silvery lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Silvery MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Silvery MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Silvery-cheeked AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Silvery-flanked AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Silvery-throated SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Silvestri’s Pygmy Snapping AntDeep Cut85points
- Silvestri's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Silvia coralsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Similar Cardita ShellDeep Cut85points
- Similar CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Similar Rubber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Simla CoffeesnakeDeep Cut85points
- Simmons' Big-headed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Simmons' treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Simmons's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Simon's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Simons' sun teguDeep Cut85points
- Simons' Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Simony's frostfishDeep Cut85points
- Simple chaperiaDeep Cut85points
- Simple PatchDeep Cut85points
- Simple SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Simple SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Simple SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Simple Twig AntDeep Cut85points
- Simpson’s Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Simpson’s plumb toadDeep Cut85points
- Simpson's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Simulius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sincora AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Singing catfishDeep Cut85points
- Single-banded GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Single-banded TuskyhookDeep Cut85points
- Single-striped OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Sinnamary Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Sinnamary tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Siona Amazonian toadletDeep Cut85points
- Sipa Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Sipaliwini Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sipariana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- SiphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- SipoDeep Cut85points
- Sipurio snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sir David Attenborough's myotisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.