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
- Starry smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Starry toadoDeep Cut85points
- Starry woodcatDeep Cut85points
- StarthroatDeep Cut85points
- Statira SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Steamer duckDeep Cut85points
- Stearn's Dove SnailDeep Cut85points
- Steel pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Steely Black-Oil beeDeep Cut85points
- Steely Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Steely-vented HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Steeplined drumDeep Cut85points
- Steere's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Steinbach's CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Steinbach's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Steindachner's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Steindachner’s dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Steindachner's sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Steinhauser's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Stejneger's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Stejneger's PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Stejneger's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Stellate scale insectDeep Cut85points
- Stellate scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Stellated Venter Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Stephan's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Stephen's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Sterba's coryDeep Cut85points
- Stewart's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Steyer's AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Steyermark's Pancake FrogDeep Cut85points
- Stichel's TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Stick grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Stiff Pen ShellDeep Cut85points
- Stiff-spined Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Stiles's TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- StiltDeep Cut85points
- Stilt SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- stilt spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Stinging Bush HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Stingless beeDeep Cut85points
- Stinker SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Stippled clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Stippled spoon-nose eelDeep Cut85points
- StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Stitched SisterDeep Cut85points
- Stocky CerithDeep Cut85points
- Stokes's ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Stoll's AgunaDeep Cut85points
- Stoll's RosemaDeep 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.