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 rose snapperDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Salta livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Spotted SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Sawdust PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- spotted seahareDeep Cut85points
- Spotted SeverumDeep Cut85points
- Spotted sharpnosed pufferDeep Cut85points
- Spotted sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Spotted snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Spotted soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted sorubimDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Spiny LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Splashing TetraDeep Cut85points
- Spotted spoon-nose eelDeep Cut85points
- Spotted sun teguDeep Cut85points
- Spotted swamp-eelDeep Cut85points
- Spotted TailwingDeep Cut85points
- Spotted TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Spotted tetraDeep Cut85points
- Spotted tinselfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted toadDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Tortoise FireflyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted trunkfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted unicornfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted whiffDeep Cut85points
- Spotted WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Spotted worm gobyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted zebra plecoDeep Cut85points
- Spotted-flanks four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Spotted-sail gobyDeep Cut85points
- Spottedcheek soleDeep Cut85points
- Spottedfin soleDeep Cut85points
- Spottedfin tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Spottedtail anglerDeep Cut85points
- SpotwingDeep Cut85points
- SpratDeep Cut85points
- Spread-wing SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Spreading-sculpture CrenellaDeep Cut85points
- Spring Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- SpringtailDeep Cut85points
- Spurcheek lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Spurred Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Spurrell's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Spy HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Spying Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Spying HairstreakDeep 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.