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
- Triplex Cutworm MothDeep Cut85points
- TripodfishDeep Cut85points
- Tripuí snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Tristan AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- TritonDeep Cut85points
- TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Trombetas knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Trombetas Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Trompet knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Tropeiro SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Tropical AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Tropical big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Tropical carpenter antDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Tropical fire antDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Flat SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tropical flounderDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Forest SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tropical fowl miteDeep Cut85points
- Tropical GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Tropical GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- Tropical hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Horned OwlDeep Cut85points
- Tropical horse tickDeep Cut85points
- Tropical KingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Tropical longfin herringDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Meal MothDeep Cut85points
- Tropical MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Mole CrabDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Orb WeaverDeep Cut85points
- Tropical ParulaDeep Cut85points
- Tropical PeweeDeep Cut85points
- Tropical plushbackDeep Cut85points
- Tropical pomfretDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Royal-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Tropical shield mantisDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Tropical spriteDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Thornytail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Tobacco MothDeep Cut85points
- Tropical TrampDeep Cut85points
- Tropical two-wing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Tropical woodskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Tropical YellowDeep Cut85points
- Tropicalia's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- TropicbirdDeep Cut85points
- Troschel's Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Troschel's treefrogDeep 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.