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
- Black hawkDeep Cut85points
- Black Hawk-EagleDeep Cut85points
- Black imported fire antDeep Cut85points
- Black IncaDeep Cut85points
- Black jackDeep Cut85points
- Black JacobinDeep Cut85points
- Black lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Black Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Black Lion TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Black lizardDeep Cut85points
- Black lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Black MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Black ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Black margateDeep Cut85points
- Black marlinDeep Cut85points
- Black MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Black Morph CyphomaDeep Cut85points
- Black morpho tetraDeep Cut85points
- Black Narrow-Mouthed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Black neon tetraDeep Cut85points
- Black NoddyDeep Cut85points
- Black NunbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Black Penestola MothDeep Cut85points
- Black phantom tetraDeep Cut85points
- Black PhoebeDeep Cut85points
- Black pin cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Black Pinnacle SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Black planaxisDeep Cut85points
- Black PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Black prochilodusDeep Cut85points
- Black RailDeep Cut85points
- Black sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Black serrivomerid eelDeep Cut85points
- Black SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Black SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Black skipjackDeep Cut85points
- Black snaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Black snake mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Black snapperDeep Cut85points
- Black snookDeep Cut85points
- Black soldier flyDeep Cut85points
- Black SolitaireDeep Cut85points
- Black southern codDeep Cut85points
- Black Spider MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Black spine-necked swamp turtleDeep Cut85points
- Black Spiny Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Black spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Black spot piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Black Spotted Orinoco-AncistrusDeep 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.