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
- Bigeye smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye soldierfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye squaretailDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye thresherDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye trevallyDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye tunaDeep Cut85points
- Bigfin anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Bigfin pearleyeDeep Cut85points
- Bighead cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Bighead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Bighead portholefishDeep Cut85points
- Bighead sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Bighead tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Bigheaded robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Bigmouth sanddabDeep Cut85points
- Bigmouth sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Bigmouth stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Bignose congerDeep Cut85points
- Bignose fanskateDeep Cut85points
- Bignose Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bignose sharkDeep Cut85points
- Bignose unicornfishDeep Cut85points
- BigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Bigscale anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Bigscale deepsea smeltDeep Cut85points
- Bigscale goatfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigtooth cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigtooth corvinaDeep Cut85points
- Bigtooth river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bigwing halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Bilaminar microporellaDeep Cut85points
- BillfishDeep Cut85points
- Bilobed Looper MothDeep Cut85points
- Bilsa white-chested frogDeep Cut85points
- Bilunate CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Binocular fishDeep Cut85points
- Biophot PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Bipinnate Sea PlumeDeep Cut85points
- Bird-voiced white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Birdbeak dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Birri Eyelash-PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Bischoff's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Biscutate SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Bisexual MusselDeep Cut85points
- Bishop's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Bishop's toadDeep Cut85points
- Bistrigula SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bitias HairstreakDeep 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.