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
- Traihuanca spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Trailside SkipperDeep Cut85points
- TrainbearerDeep Cut85points
- Trans-Andean shovelnose catfishDeep Cut85points
- Translucent gobyDeep Cut85points
- Translucent yellow crust spongeDeep Cut85points
- Translucid chimney spongeDeep Cut85points
- Transparent lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Transparent-winged big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Transtishort CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Transverse ArkDeep Cut85points
- Trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Trapdoor spiderDeep Cut85points
- Trapeze MothDeep Cut85points
- Trashline orbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Treadfin grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Tree boaDeep Cut85points
- Tree cattleDeep Cut85points
- Tree CricketDeep Cut85points
- Tree finchDeep Cut85points
- Tree iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Tree lizardDeep Cut85points
- Tree ratDeep Cut85points
- Tree ring sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Tree SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Tree trapdoor spiderDeep Cut85points
- Tree-hole mustache antDeep Cut85points
- TreehopperDeep Cut85points
- TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- TreerunnerDeep Cut85points
- Trench Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- TrepadorDeep Cut85points
- TrevallyDeep Cut85points
- Trewavas' tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Trex SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Triangle BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Triangle treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Triangle Water SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Triangular SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Triangular SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tribe's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Tributary CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Tricky HornydickDeep Cut85points
- Tricolor poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored Burrowing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored HeronDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored MetalmarkDeep 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.