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
- Urucu coryDeep Cut85points
- Urucum Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay Black Beauty TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay red belly toadDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay river spratDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay tetraDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan lobsterDeep Cut85points
- UrutuDeep Cut85points
- Uta Hick's Bearded SakiDeep Cut85points
- Utcubamba TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Utiariti Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Utinga Surinam ToadDeep Cut85points
- Uzza SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Uzzell's PrionodactylusDeep Cut85points
- Vacuocua croakerDeep Cut85points
- Vagrant morayDeep Cut85points
- Vaillant's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Vaillant's frogDeep Cut85points
- Vaillant's grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Valcheta frogDeep Cut85points
- Valdivia ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Valdivian Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Valle de Huallaga poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Valle Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Valle Santiago beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Valle treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Valley Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Vallicula Comb JellyDeep Cut85points
- Valparaiso chromisDeep Cut85points
- Valparaíso myotisDeep Cut85points
- Vampire Ground FinchDeep Cut85points
- Vampire squidDeep Cut85points
- Vandepoll's mollyDeep Cut85points
- Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtleDeep Cut85points
- Vane-Wright's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Vane-Wright's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Vane-Wrighti's PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Vanessoides HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's Amazon frogDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini’s AnotosauraDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's Bald-faced SakiDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's Ground 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.