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
- Splendid alfonsinoDeep Cut85points
- Splendid ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Splendid CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Splendid Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Splendid pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Splendid tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Splendid WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Split-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Split-banded Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Split-crown Feather DusterDeep Cut85points
- Split-spotted Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Splitbanded gobyDeep Cut85points
- Splitnose searobinDeep Cut85points
- Splittail bassDeep Cut85points
- Sponge Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Sponge cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Sponge gobyDeep Cut85points
- Sponge Peppermint ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Sponge ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Spongy Decorator CrabDeep Cut85points
- Sponsa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Spoon wormDeep Cut85points
- spot winged comb jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Spot-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spot-backed AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Spot-backed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Spot-backed PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spot-banded DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Spot-banded LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Spot-billed Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Spot-billed ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Spot-breasted AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Spot-breasted ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spot-breasted WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Spot-celled SisterDeep Cut85points
- Spot-crowned AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Spot-crowned BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Spot-fin porcupinefishDeep Cut85points
- Spot-flanked GallinuleDeep Cut85points
- Spot-fronted SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Spot-legged poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Spot-legged turtleDeep Cut85points
- Spot-tail golden bassDeep Cut85points
- Spot-tailed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Spot-tailed DasherDeep Cut85points
- Spot-tailed NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Spot-throated HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spot-throated WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged AntshrikeDeep 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.