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
- Black-backed Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed Water TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded BannerwingDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded OwlDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded Wasp MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied AnterosDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied PloverDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied WrenDeep Cut85points
- Black-belly dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed CnemoscopusDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed Mountain-ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed PeppershrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed Seed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed Shrike-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Black-billed TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Black-bodied WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Black-bordered CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Black-bordered Lemon MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-breasted GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-breasted HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Black-breasted PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-breasted PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Black-browed AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped BecardDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped DonacobiusDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped PipritesDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped Squirrel MonkeyDeep 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.