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
- Tepequém rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Tepui AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Tepui BannerwingDeep Cut85points
- Tepui BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Tepui ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Tepui GoldenthroatDeep Cut85points
- Tepui ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Tepui rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Tepui ShinywingDeep Cut85points
- Tepui SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Tepui SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Tepui TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Tepui ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Tepui tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Tepui VireoDeep Cut85points
- Tepui WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Tepui WrenDeep Cut85points
- Tepuis treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Tequendama anoleDeep Cut85points
- TerciopeloDeep Cut85points
- Terentia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Teresensis flea frogDeep Cut85points
- Teresensis’ bromeliad treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Teresina de Goiás tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Teresopolis snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Teresopolis treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Termite horned frogDeep Cut85points
- Ternetz's Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Terra FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Terraced Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- TerrapinDeep Cut85points
- Terrific foveolariaDeep Cut85points
- Tersa SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Tesla's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tesoro's CaeciliaDeep Cut85points
- Tessellated blennyDeep Cut85points
- Testaceous PartamonaDeep Cut85points
- TetaDeep Cut85points
- Tetete's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- TetraDeep Cut85points
- Tetrastigma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tetricus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tetrio SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Teucer Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Texas bow-legged bugDeep Cut85points
- Texas Citrus MiteDeep Cut85points
- Texas unicorn mantisDeep Cut85points
- Texas Wasp MothDeep Cut85points
- TeyuDeep Cut85points
- Thales's Tuco-tucoDeep 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.