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
- Velvety Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Velvety fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Velvety ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Velvety myotisDeep Cut85points
- Velvety swamp snakeDeep Cut85points
- Venancio's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Venegas RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela casque-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela Forest Pit ViperDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela MollyDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Beardless-tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan blennyDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Chevron TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Coastal Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan dwarf numbfishDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan grouperDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Island WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Lowland RabbitDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Mountain SkinkDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Orange-and-bronze TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Redstripe TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan SerdisDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan SylphDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan TroupialDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Venezuelan Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Ventrad spiderfishDeep Cut85points
- Venulius HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Venus clamDeep Cut85points
- Venus' GirdleDeep 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.