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
- Thin-lined tree cricketDeep Cut85points
- Thin-rimmed SailorDeep Cut85points
- Thin-tailed Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Thinstribed toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Thintail skateDeep Cut85points
- Thiony's gobyDeep Cut85points
- Thiony’s jawfishDeep Cut85points
- ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Thoas SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Thoburn's mulletDeep Cut85points
- Thomas Lee's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Thomas sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's Mountain CavyDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's shaggy batDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Thomas's yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Thompson's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Thompson's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Thona SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Thordesa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thoria HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thoria SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Thorn LatirusDeep Cut85points
- Thorn treehopperDeep Cut85points
- Thorn-tailed RayaditoDeep Cut85points
- ThornbillDeep Cut85points
- ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Thornbush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Thorned Heart Orb-weaver SpiderDeep Cut85points
- ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Thorntail Mountain LizardDeep Cut85points
- Thornton's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Thorny Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Thorny river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny tail skateDeep Cut85points
- Thorny tinselfishDeep Cut85points
- Thorny whorltail-iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Thorny-armed mantisDeep Cut85points
- Thousand Spots PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Thousand-spot ConeDeep Cut85points
- Thrasea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Thread brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Thread eelDeep 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.