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 king crabDeep Cut85points
- Southern King WeakfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- Southern lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Southern LapwingDeep Cut85points
- Southern lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern little yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Southern long-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Man-O-WarDeep Cut85points
- Southern Maned Three-toed SlothDeep Cut85points
- Southern MartinDeep Cut85points
- Southern Milky Argyria MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern mole cricketDeep Cut85points
- Southern MonarchDeep Cut85points
- Southern Monito del MonteDeep Cut85points
- Southern Moon JellyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Mountain CavyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Mountain ViscachaDeep Cut85points
- Southern MuriquiDeep Cut85points
- Southern Nightingale-WrenDeep Cut85points
- Southern ocean daggertoothDeep Cut85points
- Southern opahDeep Cut85points
- Southern orange-legged leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Southern pale-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Páramo HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Southern pink shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Southern pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Southern PochardDeep Cut85points
- Southern PuduDeep Cut85points
- Southern pufferDeep Cut85points
- Southern Pygmy MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Southern rays breamDeep Cut85points
- Southern red batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Red OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Southern Red RimDeep Cut85points
- Southern red snapperDeep Cut85points
- Southern Right WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Southern Right-whale DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Southern River OtterDeep Cut85points
- Southern Robber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southern rock bassDeep Cut85points
- Southern Rough-winged SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Southern Royal AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Southern sawtail catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Southern Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Southern ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Southern Scrub-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Southern seadevilDeep Cut85points
- Southern sennetDeep 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.