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
- Turquoise-throated PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Turquoise-tipped darnerDeep Cut85points
- Turquoise-winged ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Turrubarés toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Turtle antDeep Cut85points
- Turtle Ant-mimicking Crab SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Turtle BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Turtle Grass AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Turtle LeechesDeep Cut85points
- Turtle mountain tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Turumiquire Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Tusk shellDeep Cut85points
- Tusked gobyDeep Cut85points
- Tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Tutelina DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Tutumbaro Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Tuyú meadow katydidDeep Cut85points
- Tweedy's Crab-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Twenty-two-spotted woolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Twig antDeep Cut85points
- Twig catfishDeep Cut85points
- Twilight darnerDeep Cut85points
- Twilight gobyDeep Cut85points
- Twin BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Twin dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Twin-sailed SalpDeep Cut85points
- Twin-striped pearleyeDeep Cut85points
- Twinhorn blennyDeep Cut85points
- Twinspot bassDeep Cut85points
- Twinspot triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Twirler MothDeep Cut85points
- Twist-necked turtleDeep Cut85points
- twisted-plait oliveDeep Cut85points
- Twisted-wing parasiteDeep Cut85points
- TwistwingDeep Cut85points
- Two Banded CaeciliaDeep Cut85points
- Two line coryDeep Cut85points
- Two spot toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Two-band EulimaDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded PloverDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Two-barred FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Two-beaked searobinDeep Cut85points
- Two-Claw ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Two-colored BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Two-colored Fishing SnakeDeep 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.