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
- Villamizar's worm salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Villarica Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Villasboas' tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Villavicencio snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Vilna FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Vinaceous-breasted AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Vinca SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Vine snakeDeep Cut85points
- Vine SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Vinha Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous JayDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous Quail-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous trogonDeep Cut85points
- Violet Blanket OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Violet Globe SnailDeep Cut85points
- Violet gobyDeep Cut85points
- Violet PurpuraDeep Cut85points
- Violet Sea SnailDeep Cut85points
- Violet warehouDeep Cut85points
- Violet ZoanthidsDeep Cut85points
- Violet-banded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Violet-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Violet-capped HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Violet-capped WoodnymphDeep Cut85points
- Violet-chested HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Violet-fronted BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Violet-headed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Violet-patched SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Violet-tailed SylphDeep Cut85points
- Violet-throated MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Violet-throated StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Violet-tipped SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Violet-washed Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Violet-washed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Violet-winged grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- VioletearDeep Cut85points
- Viper morayDeep Cut85points
- VireoDeep Cut85points
- Virgatus Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Virgin NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Virginia RailDeep Cut85points
- Virginiana ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Virginius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Viricuculla SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Viridian DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Viridian MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Virilis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ViscachaDeep 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.