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
- TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Taphorn's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Tapichalaca treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Tapir FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tapir Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Taracuá spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- TarakihiDeep Cut85points
- Tarantula hawkDeep Cut85points
- Tarapaca Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Tarapacá tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Tarapoto Big-headed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tarapoto Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Tarauaca snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Target Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Tarija Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Tarma Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- TarponDeep Cut85points
- Tarpon snookDeep Cut85points
- Tarzoo discusDeep Cut85points
- Tassled BornellaDeep Cut85points
- Tatama Climbing SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Tatama TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Tataupa TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Tatayo’s glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Tate's Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Tate's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Tate's NeusticurusDeep Cut85points
- Tate's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- TattlerDeep Cut85points
- Taunay TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Tawny AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Tawny blennyDeep Cut85points
- Tawny crazy antDeep Cut85points
- Tawny Glass-snailDeep Cut85points
- Tawny Mole CricketDeep Cut85points
- Tawny PennantDeep Cut85points
- Tawny TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Tawny Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-bellied Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-bellied HermitDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-bellied Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-bellied SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-breasted FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-breasted TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-browed OwlDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-capped EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-cornered SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-crested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-crowned greenletDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-faced GnatwrenDeep 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.