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
- Sparkling VioletearDeep Cut85points
- Sparse Dove SnailDeep Cut85points
- Spatiosa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Spear-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Spear-winged CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Spearfish remoraDeep Cut85points
- Speck-claw Decorator CrabDeep Cut85points
- Speckle-breasted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Speckle-breasted WrenDeep Cut85points
- Speckle-chested PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Speckle-faced ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Speckled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Speckled blennyDeep Cut85points
- Speckled ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Speckled flounderDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Forest PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Speckled guitarfishDeep Cut85points
- Speckled HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Speckled MournerDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Nightingale-ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Speckled pavonDeep Cut85points
- Speckled piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Speckled pufferDeep Cut85points
- Speckled RacerDeep Cut85points
- Speckled RailDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Speckled scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Sea SquirtDeep Cut85points
- Speckled smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Speckled SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Speckled TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Speckled TellinDeep Cut85points
- Speckled treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Speckled worm-eelDeep Cut85points
- Speckled xingu coryDeep Cut85points
- Speckled-tail flounderDeep Cut85points
- Specklefin cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Specklefin midshipmanDeep Cut85points
- Spectacle wormDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled caimanDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled DuckDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled OwlDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled PetrelDeep 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.