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
- Two-colored MussuranaDeep Cut85points
- Two-colored Oval FrogDeep Cut85points
- Two-colored Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Two-coloured CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Two-eyed Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Two-faced NeusticurusDeep Cut85points
- Two-headed beaniaDeep Cut85points
- Two-headed SipoDeep Cut85points
- Two-lined Fathead AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Two-lined Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Two-lined Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Two-lined Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Two-marked AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Two-pupil SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Two-spined Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot ApistogrammaDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted bromeliad spiderDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted cotton stainerDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted PreponaDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Two-striped Forest PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Two-striped MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Two-tailed spiderDeep Cut85points
- Two-tone coryDeep Cut85points
- Two-toned GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Two-toned SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Twosaddle corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Twospine bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Twospine driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Twospot astyanaxDeep Cut85points
- Twospot blennyDeep Cut85points
- Twospot cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Twospot flounderDeep Cut85points
- Twospot lebiasinaDeep Cut85points
- Twostripe corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Twostripe pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Twostripe snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Twostriped dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Tyler's coralbrotulaDeep Cut85points
- Tyleria Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Typhaon SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Typhon Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Tyrannine WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Tyrant flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Tyrant-manakinDeep Cut85points
- Tyrian MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- UakariDeep 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.