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
- Subferrugineus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Subflexus Straw MothDeep Cut85points
- Submontane spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Suborbicular KellyclamDeep Cut85points
- Subparallel lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Subscripted ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Subterranean Clover WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Subterranean DartDeep Cut85points
- Subtle Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Subtropical DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- Subtropical LadyDeep Cut85points
- Subtropical Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Such's AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Suckermouth catfishDeep Cut85points
- Suco croakerDeep Cut85points
- Sucova SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sucre AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Sucre Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sucre's glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Suffused SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Sugar Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sugarcane BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Sugarcane BorerDeep Cut85points
- Sugarcane MidgetDeep Cut85points
- Suiriri FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sulcated otostigmaDeep Cut85points
- Sulfur AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Sulfur ConeDeep Cut85points
- Sullied SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Sullied SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur Boring SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-bearded ReedhaunterDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-bellied FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-bellied TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-manakinDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-breasted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-rumped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sulphur-throated FinchDeep Cut85points
- Sulphury FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sultan plecoDeep Cut85points
- Sumaco horned treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sumaco toadletDeep Cut85points
- Summer TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Summers’ poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Sumptuosa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- sun anemoneDeep 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.