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
- Spot-winged FalconetDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged GliderDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Spot-winged Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Spotback corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Spotback scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotback skateDeep Cut85points
- Spotbase burrfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotcheek blennyDeep Cut85points
- Spotcheek gobyDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin burrfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin flounderDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin gobyDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin hogfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin porgyDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Spothead lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Spotjaw blennyDeep Cut85points
- Spotless Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Spotless Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Spotstripe pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Spottail curimataDeep Cut85points
- Spottail gruntDeep Cut85points
- Spottail leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Spottail morayDeep Cut85points
- Spotted algae-eating gobyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Spotted AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Spotted AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spotted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Spotted baleen plecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted BamboowrenDeep Cut85points
- Spotted BarbtailDeep Cut85points
- Spotted barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Beet Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Spotted blennyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted bubble shellDeep Cut85points
- spotted cleaner shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted collar coryDeep Cut85points
- Spotted corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Spotted CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Spotted croakerDeep 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.