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
- South American Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- South American MestraDeep Cut85points
- South American Multiradiate Sun StarDeep Cut85points
- South American Painted-snipeDeep Cut85points
- South American palm weevilDeep Cut85points
- South American pilchardDeep Cut85points
- South American Pond SnakeDeep Cut85points
- South American RattlesnakeDeep Cut85points
- South American rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- South American Sea LionDeep Cut85points
- South American Sea NettleDeep Cut85points
- South American silver croakerDeep Cut85points
- South American silver porgyDeep Cut85points
- South American SipoDeep Cut85points
- South American snake-necked turtleDeep Cut85points
- South American snapping turtleDeep Cut85points
- South American social spiderDeep Cut85points
- South American TernDeep Cut85points
- South American TigertailDeep Cut85points
- South American Tropical BuckeyeDeep Cut85points
- South American Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- South Andean Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- South Brazilian skateDeep Cut85points
- South Pacific hakeDeep Cut85points
- South Pacific Mauve StingerDeep Cut85points
- South Pacific morayDeep Cut85points
- South Pacific soleDeep Cut85points
- South Polar SkuaDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Beardless-tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Brazil snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Scarlet SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southern Amazon Red SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Southern AntpipitDeep Cut85points
- Southern Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern Atlantic sharpnose-pufferDeep Cut85points
- Southern Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bahia heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bahian TitiDeep Cut85points
- Southern bandtail pufferDeep Cut85points
- Southern banjo catfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Southern Beet Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern BentbillDeep Cut85points
- Southern big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Southern black mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Black-eared OpossumDeep 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.