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
- Swallow-tailed GullDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-tailed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-tailed KiteDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-tailed NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-winged PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Swallowtail Headshield SlugDeep Cut85points
- Swamp DancerDeep Cut85points
- Swamp DasherDeep Cut85points
- Swamp eelDeep Cut85points
- Swamp FiretailDeep Cut85points
- Swamp guppyDeep Cut85points
- Swamp LiophisDeep Cut85points
- Swamp RacerDeep Cut85points
- Swamp ratDeep Cut85points
- Swamp SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Swamp snakeDeep Cut85points
- Swamp toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Swarming Squat LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- SweeperDeep Cut85points
- Sweet Broom Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- Sweet Potato Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Sweet Potato MothDeep Cut85points
- Sweetpotato Leaf BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Sweetpotato LeafrollerDeep Cut85points
- Swelling redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- SwellsharkDeep Cut85points
- SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Swift-winged SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Swimming CynaraDeep Cut85points
- Swollen Fig ShellDeep Cut85points
- Swollen Frog ShellDeep Cut85points
- swollen hairy tritonDeep Cut85points
- Swollen-Knob CandelabrumDeep Cut85points
- Swollenclaw MantisDeep Cut85points
- Sword-billed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Swordfin killifishDeep Cut85points
- Swordsman anoleDeep Cut85points
- Swordsnout grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Swordspine croakerDeep Cut85points
- Swordspine snookDeep Cut85points
- Swordtail characinDeep Cut85points
- Swordtail jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Sychr's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Syedra HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- SylphDeep 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.