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
- Thread snakeDeep Cut85points
- Thread-gilled WormsDeep Cut85points
- Thread-spined gobyDeep Cut85points
- ThreadfinDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin acaraDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin anglerDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin bassDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin bonefishDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin jackDeep Cut85points
- Threadfin slickheadDeep Cut85points
- Threadtail congerDeep Cut85points
- Three beacon plecoDeep Cut85points
- Three point toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Three-colored blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Three-eye flounderDeep Cut85points
- Three-fingered Silent FrogDeep Cut85points
- Three-lined GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Three-lined snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Three-scaled GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Three-sectioned orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Three-spot flounderDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted frogletDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted Lemon MothDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted treehopperDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped austral-longhornDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped dasherDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped Smooth Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Three-toed Guanabara FrogDeep Cut85points
- Three-toed JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Threebanded butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Threelight dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Threeline bassletDeep Cut85points
- Threespine bassDeep Cut85points
- Threespot damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Threespot eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Threespot headstanderDeep Cut85points
- Threespot leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Threestripe corydorasDeep 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.