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
- Titanicus plecoDeep Cut85points
- Titi monkeyDeep Cut85points
- Titi shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Titicaca GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Titicaca Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- TityraDeep Cut85points
- Tityus bahiensisDeep Cut85points
- Toachi rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Toad-headed pit viperDeep Cut85points
- Toad-headed turtleDeep Cut85points
- Toad-like Ground FrogDeep Cut85points
- Toad-wife tree frogDeep Cut85points
- ToadfishDeep Cut85points
- Toadfish gobyDeep Cut85points
- ToadletDeep Cut85points
- Toady leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Toba Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Tobacco Budworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Tobacco slug beetleDeep Cut85points
- TobaccofishDeep Cut85points
- Tobago coralbrotulaDeep Cut85points
- Tobago False CoralsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tobago Least GeckoletDeep Cut85points
- Tobago Long-legged PalmfrogDeep Cut85points
- Tobago Stream SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tobogán de la selva rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Tocantins swimming frogDeep Cut85points
- Tocantins Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Tocantins white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Toco ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Tocuyo SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Todd's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Todd's NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Todd's SirystesDeep Cut85points
- Tody MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Tody-tyrant-voiced nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Togarna HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Tojologue Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tolhuaca lizardDeep Cut85points
- Tolhuaca spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Tolima Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tolima BlossomcrownDeep Cut85points
- Tolima DoveDeep Cut85points
- Tollhouse TiclearDeep Cut85points
- TolloDeep Cut85points
- Tomato leafminerDeep Cut85points
- Tomato StemborerDeep Cut85points
- Tomes's Spiny-ratDeep 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.