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
- Smudge-spot corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Smudged CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Smudged Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Smudged HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- SnaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Snail KiteDeep Cut85points
- Snail-eating snakeDeep Cut85points
- SnailfishDeep Cut85points
- Snake mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Snake-necked turtleDeep Cut85points
- SnakefishDeep Cut85points
- Snakehead kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- Snethlage's AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Snethlage's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Snethlage's MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Snethlage's Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- SnipeDeep Cut85points
- SnipefishDeep Cut85points
- Snodgrass's Galápagos Wolf SpiderDeep Cut85points
- SnoekDeep Cut85points
- SnookDeep Cut85points
- Snout mothDeep Cut85points
- Snout-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Snouted eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Snouted mulletDeep Cut85points
- Snouted toadDeep Cut85points
- Snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Snow bassDeep Cut85points
- Snow-capped ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Snow-footed Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Snowball plecoDeep Cut85points
- Snowflake (butterfly)Deep Cut85points
- Snowflake CoralDeep Cut85points
- Snowy EgretDeep Cut85points
- Snowy grouperDeep Cut85points
- Snowy PloverDeep Cut85points
- Snowy SheathbillDeep Cut85points
- Snowy-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Snowy-crowned TernDeep Cut85points
- Snowy-throated KingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Snubnose anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Snubnosed spiny eelDeep Cut85points
- SoapfishDeep Cut85points
- Sober Renia MothDeep Cut85points
- Soberbo robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Sobetes Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Social Feather Duster WormDeep Cut85points
- Social FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Social SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Social spiderDeep 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.