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
- Slim SnaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Slime starDeep Cut85points
- Slimehead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Slimtail lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Slimtail skateDeep Cut85points
- Slimy DendrodorisDeep Cut85points
- Slimy headDeep Cut85points
- Slimy Sea PlumeDeep Cut85points
- Slipper lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Slipper snailDeep Cut85points
- Slipper soleDeep Cut85points
- Slippery dickDeep Cut85points
- Slit branchial paraliparisDeep Cut85points
- Sloane's viperfishDeep Cut85points
- Slobbering catfishDeep Cut85points
- Slope bassDeep Cut85points
- Slope congerDeep Cut85points
- Slope soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Slopewater lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Slosson's metalmark mothDeep Cut85points
- Sloth MothDeep Cut85points
- Sloth's giant tickDeep Cut85points
- Slough AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Sludge WormDeep Cut85points
- Slug mothDeep Cut85points
- Small Banded Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Small Banded VenusDeep Cut85points
- Small big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Small Brown Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Small Fernandina Galapagos MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small FlatDeep Cut85points
- Small Goose BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Small grape sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Small Ground FinchDeep Cut85points
- Small Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Small knobbed sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Small MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Small Mocis MothDeep Cut85points
- Small Painted LocustDeep Cut85points
- Small pale sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Small Red-nosed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small sanddabDeep Cut85points
- Small TelemiadesDeep Cut85points
- Small Thistle MothDeep Cut85points
- Small Tree FinchDeep Cut85points
- Small tree spongeDeep Cut85points
- Small Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small villosus hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Small white rock sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Small Yungas HocicudoDeep 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.