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
- Sladen's hatchet fishDeep Cut85points
- Slag LizardDeep Cut85points
- Slantlip eelDeep Cut85points
- Slashcheek gobyDeep Cut85points
- Slate bristlenose plecoDeep Cut85points
- Slate coryDeep Cut85points
- Slate Pencil UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Slate-colored AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Slate-colored CootDeep Cut85points
- Slate-colored GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Slate-colored HawkDeep Cut85points
- Slate-colored SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Slate-crowned AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Slate-headed Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Slate-throated GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Slate-throated redstartDeep Cut85points
- Slater's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Slaty antshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Slaty AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Slaty BecardDeep Cut85points
- Slaty BristlefrontDeep Cut85points
- Slaty BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Slaty ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Slaty FinchDeep Cut85points
- Slaty GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Slaty SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Slaty TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Slaty TanmarkDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-backed Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-backed Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-backed HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-backed Nightingale-ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-breasted Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-capped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-capped Shrike-VireoDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-masked TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-tailed TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Slaty-winged Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- SleeperDeep Cut85points
- Sleeper cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Sleeping Beauty Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sleeping beauty tetraDeep Cut85points
- Slender anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Slender AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Slender argentineDeep Cut85points
- Slender bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Slender bristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Slender broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Slender catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Slender CercosauraDeep 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.