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
- Thalia SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Thama HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thamyra SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Thara HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thargelia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thasus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- The MagicianDeep Cut85points
- Thecla BannerDeep Cut85points
- Thekla FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Thelersa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Themisto amberwingDeep Cut85points
- Theona CheckerspotDeep Cut85points
- Theresia's Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Thermus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Theseus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Thespian Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Thestia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Thick keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Thick LucineDeep Cut85points
- Thick-billed EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Thick-billed MinerDeep Cut85points
- Thick-billed SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Thick-billed Seed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Thick-billed SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Thick-bordered Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Thick-edged Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Thick-kneeDeep Cut85points
- Thick-rimmed SailorDeep Cut85points
- Thick-tipped GretaDeep Cut85points
- Thickbeard grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Thickbody skateDeep Cut85points
- Thicket AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Thickhead ground snakeDeep Cut85points
- Thickhead lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Thicklipped dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Thickscale silversideDeep Cut85points
- Thickskin Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Thiele's fire spongeDeep Cut85points
- Thieme's ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Thin CyclinellaDeep Cut85points
- Thin EntodesmaDeep Cut85points
- Thin Finger CoralDeep Cut85points
- Thin Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Thin Leaf Lettuce CoralDeep Cut85points
- Thin Purse OysterDeep Cut85points
- Thin snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Thin-fingered Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Thin-legged neocorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Thin-line dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Thin-lined OwletDeep 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.