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
- Tomtate gruntDeep Cut85points
- Tona SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Tonchek spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Tonga Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tongue AugerDeep Cut85points
- Tongue-Eating LouseDeep Cut85points
- TonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Tonkin weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Tooth StarDeep Cut85points
- Tooth-billed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Tooth-billed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Tooth-billed WrenDeep Cut85points
- Toothed DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Toothed flounderDeep Cut85points
- Toothed SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Toothed whaleDeep Cut85points
- ToothfishDeep Cut85points
- Top shell whelkDeep Cut85points
- Top snailDeep Cut85points
- TopazDeep Cut85points
- Tope sharkDeep Cut85points
- Toppin's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Topside lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Torfrida BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Torpedo sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Torquatus SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Torrent catfishDeep Cut85points
- Torrent DuckDeep Cut85points
- Torrent TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- TorrenteerDeep Cut85points
- Torres redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Torres toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Torres' Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Torres's Pink-lipped MouseDeep Cut85points
- Torrid jewel bugDeep Cut85points
- Torroto gruntDeep Cut85points
- Tortoise beetleDeep Cut85points
- Totoras Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Touan Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Toucan BarbetDeep Cut85points
- ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Touch-me-not SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Tourmaline SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Touzet's woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Tovaria WhiteDeep Cut85points
- ToxanaDeep Cut85points
- Tractor CrabDeep Cut85points
- Tradescantia leaf beetleDeep Cut85points
- Tradescantia tip beetleDeep Cut85points
- TrahiraDeep 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.