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
- Vanzolini's leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Vaqueira longfin herringDeep Cut85points
- Vargas Llosa's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Vargem Alta flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Vari's angelsharkDeep Cut85points
- Vari's electric eelDeep Cut85points
- Varia Dove ShellDeep Cut85points
- Variable AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Variable Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Variable Boring SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Variable CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Variable CerithDeep Cut85points
- Variable ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Variable coryDeep Cut85points
- Variable CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Variable CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Variable EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Variable FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Variable Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Variable HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Variable HawkDeep Cut85points
- Variable lichen cicadaDeep Cut85points
- Variable Metallata MothDeep Cut85points
- Variable Narrow-wingDeep Cut85points
- Variable OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Variable Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Variable Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Variable SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Variable SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Variable ToniciaDeep Cut85points
- Variable Tropic MothDeep Cut85points
- Variable Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Variable WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Variable WormsnailDeep Cut85points
- Varicose AlabaDeep Cut85points
- Varied dancerDeep Cut85points
- Varied SolitaireDeep Cut85points
- Variegated AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Cutworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Variegated deer flyDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Feather DusterDeep Cut85points
- Variegated FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Variegated HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Variegated LasaiaDeep 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.