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
- Small-billed ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Small-billed TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Small-eared Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Small-eared Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Small-eyed SailorDeep Cut85points
- Small-eyed Toad-headed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Small-headed ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Small-headed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Small-scaled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Small-scaled pacuDeep Cut85points
- Small-scaled woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Small-spine snailfishDeep Cut85points
- Small-spotted FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Small-spotted Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Small-spotted SilverdropDeep Cut85points
- Small-winged Gay's MantisDeep Cut85points
- Small-winged Stick MantisDeep Cut85points
- Small's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Smalldisk torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Smaller Sand CricketDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye croakerDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye hammerheadDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye lantern sharkDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye midshipmanDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye spaghetti eelDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye squaretailDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Smalleyed rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Smalleyed round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smallfin catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Smallfin lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Smallhead Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Smallmouth gruntDeep Cut85points
- Smallnose fanskateDeep Cut85points
- Smallscale lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Smallscale smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Smallscale waryfishDeep Cut85points
- Smallscale weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Smallscaled spinycheek sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Smallskin treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Smallsucker clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Smalltail sand skateDeep Cut85points
- Smalltail sharkDeep Cut85points
- Smallthorn sand skateDeep Cut85points
- Smalltooth sand tigerDeep Cut85points
- Smalltooth sawfishDeep Cut85points
- Smalltooth weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Smear-spotted SkipperDeep 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.