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 Sharpnose SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Southern SicklelegDeep Cut85points
- Southern SicklewingDeep Cut85points
- Southern sleeper sharkDeep Cut85points
- Southern smoothhead glass blennyDeep Cut85points
- southern spindle-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Southern Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern splash tetraDeep Cut85points
- Southern Spragueia MothDeep Cut85points
- Southern Squash Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Southern stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Southern stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Southern stripe-headed round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Southern striped raphaelDeep Cut85points
- Southern TamanduaDeep Cut85points
- Southern Teardrop CrabDeep Cut85points
- Southern thorny skateDeep Cut85points
- Southern Three-banded ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Southern walking leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Southern white shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Southern White-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southern whitetail majorDeep Cut85points
- Southern yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Southern YellowthroatDeep Cut85points
- Southwest Atlantic butterfishDeep Cut85points
- Souzas robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Sowbug Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Sowerby's fleshy limpetDeep Cut85points
- Soybean Looper MothDeep Cut85points
- Soybean Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Soza FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Spade sand skateDeep Cut85points
- SpadebillDeep Cut85points
- SpadefishDeep Cut85points
- Spadetailed Checkerboard CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Spaghetti bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Spaghetti eelDeep Cut85points
- Spaghetti wormDeep Cut85points
- Spangled CoquetteDeep Cut85points
- Spangled CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Spangled CupidDeep Cut85points
- Spangled Emberwing MothDeep Cut85points
- Spanish flagDeep Cut85points
- Spanish gruntDeep Cut85points
- Spanish hogfishDeep Cut85points
- Spanish LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Spanish MothDeep Cut85points
- Sparano coryDeep Cut85points
- SparingDeep Cut85points
- Spark anglemouthDeep 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.