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
- Viscacha ratDeep Cut85points
- Visendus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- VisorbearerDeep Cut85points
- Visored batDeep Cut85points
- Vista SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Vitreous arachnopusiaDeep Cut85points
- Vivacious clubskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Vivid SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Viviparous mollyDeep Cut85points
- Vivo's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Vizcacheras' white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Vocal dink frogDeep Cut85points
- Volcano Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Volcano SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Volta's electric eelDeep Cut85points
- VoluteDeep Cut85points
- volute daphnelleDeep Cut85points
- Voodoo whiffDeep Cut85points
- Voracious tritoniaDeep Cut85points
- Voragine's yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Voss' PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Voss's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Voss's Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Voss's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Vossoroca MithrasDeep Cut85points
- VRAEM treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Vráz's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Vulture beeDeep Cut85points
- Vulture catfishDeep Cut85points
- Vulturine ParrotDeep Cut85points
- W RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Wagler's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Wagler's Puffing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Wagler's SipoDeep Cut85points
- Wagler's SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Wagler's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Wagner's bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Wagner's common mustached batDeep Cut85points
- Wagner's lesser mustached batDeep Cut85points
- Wagner's white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Wagtail-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Wagter's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Wahlberg's BuckeyeDeep Cut85points
- WahooDeep Cut85points
- Wainscot MothDeep Cut85points
- Waistcoat lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Waiter DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Walckenaer's Trashline OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Walford's yellow tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Walker's HawkmothDeep 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.