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
- Spiny devil katydidDeep Cut85points
- Spiny dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Feather-tongue-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Jewel BoxDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Spiny lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Spiny orb-weaverDeep Cut85points
- Spiny oysterDeep Cut85points
- Spiny paper cockleDeep Cut85points
- Spiny predatory katydidDeep Cut85points
- Spiny ratDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Sand StarDeep Cut85points
- Spiny sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Spiny skateDeep Cut85points
- Spiny SlippersnailDeep Cut85points
- Spiny stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Tachina FlyDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Spiny-back eelDeep Cut85points
- Spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Spiny-faced AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Spiny-headed Tree LizardDeep Cut85points
- Spinyback Spider CrabDeep Cut85points
- Spinycheek sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Spinycheek soldierfishDeep Cut85points
- Spinyhead blennyDeep Cut85points
- Spinythroat scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spiral KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Spiral SiphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Spitting spiderDeep Cut85points
- SpittlebugDeep Cut85points
- Spix's disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Spix's GuanDeep Cut85points
- Spix's horned treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Spix's MacawDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Mustached TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Red-handed HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Spix's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Spix's SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spix's WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Spix's white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Spix's WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Yellow-toothed CavyDeep Cut85points
- Splash tetraDeep Cut85points
- Splash-backed poison frogDeep 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.