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
- Spotted cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Spotted dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Spotted driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted drumDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Dwarf GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted fanfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted flounderDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Foot NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Spotted goatfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted grouperDeep Cut85points
- Spotted gurnardDeep Cut85points
- Spotted HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Hairy-eyed Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted head sargoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted headstanderDeep Cut85points
- Spotted heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Hook PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted hoploDeep Cut85points
- Spotted houndsharkDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Hover FlyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Jari PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted JellyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted LeatherleafDeep Cut85points
- Spotted leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Spotted LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Maize BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Marabá plecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted medusa plecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted metynnisDeep Cut85points
- Spotted morayDeep Cut85points
- Spotted NothuraDeep Cut85points
- Spotted nurse frogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted orange seam plecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Spotted PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Spotted pike-characinDeep Cut85points
- Spotted pike-congerDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Pink Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Porcelain CrabDeep Cut85points
- Spotted PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Spotted pufferDeep Cut85points
- Spotted RailDeep Cut85points
- Spotted rainbow wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Spotted red-belly toadDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted rocket 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.