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
- Sooty SnoutDeep Cut85points
- Sooty SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Sooty TernDeep Cut85points
- Sooty TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-capped HermitDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-capped PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-crowned FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-faced FinchDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-fronted SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-headed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Sooty-headed WrenDeep Cut85points
- SoraDeep Cut85points
- Sorata Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sorghum Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Soriano's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Sorocaba dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Sorojchi Mountain CavyDeep Cut85points
- Sosia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sosis CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Sosis SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Soto's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Sousas snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- South American Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- South American bumblebee catfishDeep Cut85points
- South American BushmasterDeep Cut85points
- South American catfishDeep Cut85points
- South American Cicada-killer WaspDeep Cut85points
- South American Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- South American CoachwhipDeep Cut85points
- South American CoatiDeep Cut85points
- South American collared lizardDeep Cut85points
- South American common toadDeep Cut85points
- South American Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- South American Dead Leaf MantisDeep Cut85points
- South American dotted racerDeep Cut85points
- South American Dwarf GeckoDeep Cut85points
- South American Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- South American fruit flyDeep Cut85points
- South American Fur SealDeep Cut85points
- South American GeckoDeep Cut85points
- South American Gray FoxDeep Cut85points
- South American green mantisDeep Cut85points
- South American Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- South American Hognose SnakeDeep Cut85points
- South American Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- South American LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- South American lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- South American locustDeep Cut85points
- South American lungfishDeep Cut85points
- South American Mangrove BuckeyeDeep 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.