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
- Biting Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- BitternDeep Cut85points
- Black acaraDeep Cut85points
- Black AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Black and White CrinoidDeep Cut85points
- Black AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black armoured searobinDeep Cut85points
- Black arowanaDeep Cut85points
- Black austral small carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Black Ball SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Black band catfishDeep Cut85points
- Black barnacle blennyDeep Cut85points
- Black Bearded SakiDeep Cut85points
- Black Bee-KillerDeep Cut85points
- Black blennyDeep Cut85points
- Black Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Black brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Black BushbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Black caimanDeep Cut85points
- Black Cajas harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Black CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Black catfishDeep Cut85points
- Black Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black Chicken SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black Compact Carpenter AntDeep Cut85points
- Black coralDeep Cut85points
- Black CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Black curbinataDeep Cut85points
- Black cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Black DasherDeep Cut85points
- Black dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Black dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Black drumDeep Cut85points
- Black False BoaDeep Cut85points
- Black fatheadDeep Cut85points
- Black FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Black Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Black gemfishDeep Cut85points
- Black ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Black gill stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Black Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black grouperDeep Cut85points
- Black gruntDeep Cut85points
- Black HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Black Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Black Halloween SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black hamletDeep 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.