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
- Squamate AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Square BentwingDeep Cut85points
- Square-necked grain beetleDeep Cut85points
- Square-spotted DasherDeep Cut85points
- Square-spotted MinistreakDeep Cut85points
- Squaretail duckbillDeep Cut85points
- Squaretail triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Squint-eyed croakerDeep Cut85points
- Squirrel CuckooDeep Cut85points
- SquirrelfishDeep Cut85points
- Sri Lanka Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- Stacy's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Staeck's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Stag beetleDeep Cut85points
- Staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Stained flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Stained LophosisDeep Cut85points
- Stained treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Stained White-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Stained-glass MothDeep Cut85points
- Stalkeye scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Star anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Star anoleDeep Cut85points
- Star AreneDeep Cut85points
- Star Feather WormDeep Cut85points
- Star pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Star silversideDeep Cut85points
- Star-studded grouperDeep Cut85points
- Star-throated AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- StardrumDeep Cut85points
- Stareye HermitDeep Cut85points
- Stareye lightfishDeep Cut85points
- StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- StargazerDeep Cut85points
- Staring pearleyeDeep Cut85points
- Stark's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Starks's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Starlight bristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Starred SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Starred Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Starry butterfishDeep Cut85points
- Starry FlatwormDeep Cut85points
- Starry grouperDeep Cut85points
- Starry leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Starry morayDeep Cut85points
- Starry Night CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Starry night harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Starry Night MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Starry Sky PlecoDeep 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.