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
- Smiling snake-eelDeep Cut85points
- Smith's PixieDeep Cut85points
- Smoke-colored PeweeDeep Cut85points
- Smoky batDeep Cut85points
- Smoky Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Smoky Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Smoky Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Smoky jungle frogDeep Cut85points
- Smoky Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Smoky PeckoltiaDeep Cut85points
- Smoky Tetanolita MothDeep Cut85points
- Smoky-brown WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Smoky-fronted Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Smooth anglerfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Atlantic TegulaDeep Cut85points
- Smooth back river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Black TegulaDeep Cut85points
- Smooth butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Dove ShellDeep Cut85points
- Smooth dreamerDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Duck ClamDeep Cut85points
- Smooth File ClamDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Flower CoralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth hammerheadDeep Cut85points
- Smooth horned frogDeep Cut85points
- Smooth jungle frogDeep Cut85points
- Smooth lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Smooth oreo doryDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Pink SnailDeep Cut85points
- Smooth pufferDeep Cut85points
- Smooth RissoDeep Cut85points
- Smooth SiphonariaDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Smooth stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Smooth TeguDeep Cut85points
- Smooth trunkfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-backed Bush AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-banded sisterDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-billed AniDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-cheek eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-cheek scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-eye blennyDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-head scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Smoothtail mobulaDeep Cut85points
- Smoothtail Spiny LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Smudge spot coryDeep 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.