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
- Black stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Black Starry Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Black Stink BugDeep Cut85points
- Black Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Black Stripe TetraDeep Cut85points
- Black swallowerDeep Cut85points
- Black SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Black SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Black TernDeep Cut85points
- Black tetraDeep Cut85points
- Black TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Black ToroDeep Cut85points
- Black Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Black triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Black TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Black urchin shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Black VultureDeep Cut85points
- Black warriorDeep Cut85points
- Black Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Black wing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Black Wing PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Black wire coralDeep Cut85points
- Black witch mothDeep Cut85points
- Black wolf-fishDeep Cut85points
- Black wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-chestnut EagleDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-chestnut Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-gold CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-gold HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-gold TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-green CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-rufous Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-tawny SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white BecardDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white Hawk-EagleDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white OwlDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white snail-eating snakeDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white TreehopperDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-yellow TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed Bush TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed ThornbillDeep 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.