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
- Threestripe pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Thresher sharkDeep Cut85points
- ThripsDeep Cut85points
- Throated Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Throatspotted blennyDeep Cut85points
- Thrush-like AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Thrush-like WrenDeep Cut85points
- Thrush-tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Thumb grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Thumbless batDeep Cut85points
- Thyesta HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Thymelen Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tiara ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ticidas SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Ticking DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- Tidal Spray CrabDeep Cut85points
- Tidepool blennyDeep Cut85points
- Tidepool ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Tidewater mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Tiessa SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Tiete tetraDeep Cut85points
- Tiger AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Tiger BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Tiger beetleDeep Cut85points
- Tiger CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Tiger fishDeep Cut85points
- Tiger gobyDeep Cut85points
- Tiger grouperDeep Cut85points
- Tiger heronDeep Cut85points
- Tiger LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Tiger LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Tiger LucineDeep Cut85points
- Tiger Mimic-QueenDeep Cut85points
- Tiger Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Tiger mothDeep Cut85points
- Tiger Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Tiger peckoltiaDeep Cut85points
- Tiger Pike CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Tiger plecoDeep Cut85points
- Tiger rat snakeDeep Cut85points
- Tiger river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Tiger silver dollarDeep Cut85points
- Tiger sorubimDeep Cut85points
- Tiger Tail Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Tiger TeddyDeep Cut85points
- Tiger WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Tiger-striped leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Tiger-striped MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Tiger's tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Tigerstriped catfishDeep 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.