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
- Tricorn batfishDeep Cut85points
- Trident grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Trigga SkipperDeep Cut85points
- TriggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Trigonal TivelaDeep Cut85points
- Trilling GnatwrenDeep Cut85points
- Trilling TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Trimaculata SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Trindade cleaner gobyDeep Cut85points
- Trindade parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Trindade PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Trindade scaled-blennyDeep Cut85points
- Trindade sweeperDeep Cut85points
- Tringa flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad & Tobago FrogDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad bat-cave roachDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Chevron TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Copper Top TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad CoralsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad dog-like batDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Dwarf TigerDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Freshwater CrabDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad guppyDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad olive tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Pink TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Piping-GuanDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Ribbon Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad SipoDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad small-resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad thick-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Upland Parrot SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Trinidadian funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Trinidadian leaf-frogDeep Cut85points
- Trinidadian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Trinka SkipperDeep Cut85points
- TriopsDeep Cut85points
- TriplefinDeep Cut85points
- TripletailDeep Cut85points
- Triplewart seadevilDeep 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.