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
- Southern blacktip lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Southern blue whitingDeep Cut85points
- Southern bluefin tunaDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bottlenose WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Southern Broken-DashDeep Cut85points
- Southern Brown BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Southern brown shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Southern Caribbean ThreadsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Southern Chestnut-breasted WrenDeep Cut85points
- Southern chromisDeep Cut85points
- Southern Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Southern ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Southern Colombian Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Southern cut-throat eelDeep Cut85points
- Southern Cyan Tiger MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Southern DogfaceDeep Cut85points
- Southern driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern driftwood catfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Southern Elephant SealDeep Cut85points
- Southern EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Southern Emerald-ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Southern Eyelash BoaDeep Cut85points
- Southern fintail snipe eelDeep Cut85points
- Southern Flannel MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern flounderDeep Cut85points
- Southern Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southern frillfinDeep Cut85points
- Southern FulmarDeep Cut85points
- Southern geoduckDeep Cut85points
- Southern Giant MayflyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Giant-HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Southern Giant-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Southern golden batDeep Cut85points
- Southern goose barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Southern Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Southern Guava SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Southern hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern hairy-legged myotisDeep Cut85points
- Southern hakeDeep Cut85points
- Southern haywormDeep Cut85points
- Southern Highland Yellow-toothed CavyDeep Cut85points
- Southern hoary batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Horse MusselDeep Cut85points
- Southern house spiderDeep Cut85points
- Southern House WrenDeep Cut85points
- Southern HuemulDeep 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.