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
- Tall False DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Tallfin croakerDeep Cut85points
- Tamá harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Tama SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Tama Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Tamacuari Stefania treefrogDeep Cut85points
- TamanduaDeep Cut85points
- Tamarind OwlDeep Cut85points
- Tamarisk Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Tamarugo ConebillDeep Cut85points
- TambaquiDeep Cut85points
- Tambo Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tambopata catfishDeep Cut85points
- Tambopata poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Tamia RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Taminella GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Tamos HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Tan bristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Tan Leatherleaf SlugDeep Cut85points
- Tan MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Tanager FinchDeep Cut85points
- Tanais HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- TananáDeep Cut85points
- Tanda’s AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Tandapi giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Tandapi Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tandayapa Andes toadDeep Cut85points
- Tandayapa giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Tandil LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Tangerine tiger plecoDeep Cut85points
- Tangerini's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tåning’s lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Tanna LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Tanned Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tantalus SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Tanti rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos Fire-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos HermitDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Tapajos Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Tapajós terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Tapayuna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tapecua Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Taperinha treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Tapertail ribbonfishDeep 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.