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
- Slender ClubskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Slender codlingDeep Cut85points
- Slender Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Slender cuskeelDeep Cut85points
- Slender filefishDeep Cut85points
- Slender frostfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Slender Inshore SquidDeep Cut85points
- Slender lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender Marsh ClamDeep Cut85points
- Slender mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Slender Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Slender opossumDeep Cut85points
- Slender pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Slender piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Slender robber flyDeep Cut85points
- Slender searobinDeep Cut85points
- Slender shovelnose catfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Slender snipe eelDeep Cut85points
- Slender snipefishDeep Cut85points
- Slender sorcererDeep Cut85points
- Slender Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Slender suckerfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender sunfishDeep Cut85points
- Slender thread herringDeep Cut85points
- Slender tunaDeep Cut85points
- Slender wenchmanDeep Cut85points
- Slender Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed KiteDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed MinerDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed PrionDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Slender-billed XenopsDeep Cut85points
- Slender-footed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Slender-tailed WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Slenderjaw morayDeep Cut85points
- Slendertail grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Slendertail lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Slevin's lava lizardDeep Cut85points
- Slevin's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Slick pufferDeep Cut85points
- SlickheadDeep Cut85points
- SliderDeep Cut85points
- Slim flounderDeep 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.