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
- Striped Pike CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Striped pike-characinDeep Cut85points
- Striped rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Striped Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Striped rubbernose plecostomusDeep Cut85points
- Striped SaddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Striped Sharpnose SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Striped slope dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Striped smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Striped snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Striped Swamp SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Striped toadDeep Cut85points
- Striped Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Striped treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Striped TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Striped triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Striped tubeshoulderDeep Cut85points
- Striped weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Striped woodcatDeep Cut85points
- Striped WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Striped WoodhaunterDeep Cut85points
- Striped WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Striped Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Striped yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Striped-fin surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Stripefin brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Stripefin eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Stripesnout false morayDeep Cut85points
- Stripy coryDeep Cut85points
- Strong-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Strong's SidegillDeep Cut85points
- Strongtooth Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Strophius HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Strüssmann’s snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Stub-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Stub-tailed EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Stub-tailed MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Stub-tailed SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Stub-tailed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Stubby Hover FlyDeep Cut85points
- Stubby lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Stump-tailed PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Sturgeon catfishDeep Cut85points
- Sturnula MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Stygian OwlDeep Cut85points
- Styled Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Subandean ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Subantarctic Fur SealDeep Cut85points
- Subaúma canebrake tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Subcaerulea Eyed-SkipperDeep 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.