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
- Streak-capped AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Streak-capped SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Streak-capped TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Streak-chested AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Streak-crowned Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Streak-fronted ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Streak-headed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Streak-headed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Streak-necked FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Streak-throated Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Streak-throated CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Streak-throated HermitDeep Cut85points
- Streaked antwrenDeep Cut85points
- Streaked DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Streaked FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Streaked FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Streaked mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Streaked prochilodDeep Cut85points
- Streaked SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Streaked SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Streaked Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Streaked TuftedcheekDeep Cut85points
- Streaked XenopsDeep Cut85points
- Streaklight tubeshoulderDeep Cut85points
- Streamer bassDeep Cut85points
- Streamer fishDeep Cut85points
- Streamer searobinDeep Cut85points
- Streamer-tailed TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Stresemann's BristlefrontDeep Cut85points
- Striate DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Striate PiddockDeep Cut85points
- Striated AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Striated AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Striated argentineDeep Cut85points
- Striated CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Striated EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Striated EmesisDeep Cut85points
- Striated frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Striated HeronDeep Cut85points
- Striated SisterDeep Cut85points
- Striated SofttailDeep Cut85points
- Stridulating Stone CrabDeep Cut85points
- Strigosa MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Striolated ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Striolated puffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Striolated Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Stripe eelDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-backed BitternDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-backed SkimmerDeep 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.