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
- Variegated paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Variegated SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Spider MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Variegated TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Turret SnailDeep Cut85points
- Varzea PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Varzea SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Varzea ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Vase Garlic SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Vatinius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Vaupes Disc FrogDeep Cut85points
- Vaupés Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Vaupes treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Vaux's SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Veadeiros snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Veadeiros tree frogDeep Cut85points
- VeeryDeep Cut85points
- Vegas Falls treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Vegetable leafminerDeep Cut85points
- Vegetable weevilDeep Cut85points
- Vegetarian FinchDeep Cut85points
- Veiled anglemouthDeep Cut85points
- Veined Ctenucha MothDeep Cut85points
- Veined HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- veined oliveDeep Cut85points
- Veined White-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Velez rayDeep Cut85points
- Velinus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Vellard's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Velour PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Velvet Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Velvet catfishDeep Cut85points
- Velvet dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Velvet HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Velvet miteDeep Cut85points
- Velvet Spider CrabDeep Cut85points
- Velvet Swamp SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Velvet whalefishDeep Cut85points
- Velvet wormDeep Cut85points
- Velvet-browed BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Velvet-fronted EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Velvet-fronted GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Velvet-purple CoronetDeep Cut85points
- Velvetbean Caterpillar MothDeep Cut85points
- VelvetbreastDeep Cut85points
- Velvetnose brotulaDeep 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.