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
- Walker's MothDeep Cut85points
- Walker's Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Walker's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Walker's Sierra FrogDeep Cut85points
- Walker's Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Walker's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Walker's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Walking SeahareDeep Cut85points
- Wall crab spiderDeep Cut85points
- Wallace's LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Wallace's SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Wallace's TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Walnut Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Walther's clubtailDeep Cut85points
- Wandering AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Wandering gliderDeep Cut85points
- Wandering Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Wandering Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Wandering Snaggletooth SnailDeep Cut85points
- Wandering TattlerDeep Cut85points
- Wandolleck's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Waorani dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Waorani Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Wara waraDeep Cut85points
- Warbler-finchDeep Cut85points
- Warbling DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- Warbling finchDeep Cut85points
- Warbling Masked FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Ward's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Warming's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Warmwater lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Warrah skateDeep Cut85points
- Warren's EntheusDeep Cut85points
- Warren's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Warrior Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Warrior waspDeep Cut85points
- Warsaw grouperDeep Cut85points
- Warteye stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Warthead blennyDeep Cut85points
- Warty CorallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Warty DendrodorisDeep Cut85points
- Warty doryDeep Cut85points
- Warty Flank Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Warty glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Warty leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Warty Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Warty Sidegill SlugDeep Cut85points
- Warty toadDeep Cut85points
- Warty tree toadDeep 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.