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
- Unicolored ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Unicoloured Sea LemonDeep Cut85points
- Unicorn crestfishDeep Cut85points
- Unicorn leatherjacket filefishDeep Cut85points
- Unicorn redspotDeep Cut85points
- UnicornfishDeep Cut85points
- Uniform AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Uniform CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Uniform FinchDeep Cut85points
- Uniform TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Uniform WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Union snookDeep Cut85points
- Unique SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Unknown WainscotDeep Cut85points
- Unspotted FirewingDeep Cut85points
- Unstable paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Unstreaked Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Unwashed ArkDeep Cut85points
- Upland AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Upland GooseDeep Cut85points
- Upland SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Upper Amazon CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Upper Amazon glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Upper Amazon stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Upper Amazon treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Upper Juruá Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Upper Orinoco treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Upper Yungas Inca HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Upside-down jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Upupa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Urabá poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Uracoan RattlesnakeDeep Cut85points
- Urania mothDeep Cut85points
- Urania Swallowtail MothDeep Cut85points
- Urbina Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Urdaneta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Uribe Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Urich's TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Urqua SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Urrao anoleDeep Cut85points
- Urrao AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Urrao Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Urrao rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Urrao rocket frog (Silverstoneia erasmios)Deep Cut85points
- Ursine Red HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Urticant collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Urubamba AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Urubamba Brown TitiDeep Cut85points
- UruçuDeep 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.