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
- Black-capped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Black-capped Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-cheek gobyDeep Cut85points
- Black-cheeked GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-cheeked WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Black-chested Buzzard-EagleDeep Cut85points
- Black-chested FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Black-chested JayDeep Cut85points
- Black-chested Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-chested TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-chinned AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-chinned Emperor TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Black-chinned Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-chinned SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Black-collared Green LizardDeep Cut85points
- Black-collared HawkDeep Cut85points
- Black-collared JayDeep Cut85points
- Black-collared SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black-collared SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Black-cowled SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Black-crested AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black-crested FinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-crested Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-crested WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned Dwarf MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned Night-HeronDeep Cut85points
- Black-crowned TityraDeep Cut85points
- Black-dot DiatraeaDeep Cut85points
- Black-dotted Hemeroplanis MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-dotted Ruddy MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-dotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Black-eared FairyDeep Cut85points
- Black-eared HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Black-eyed monkey frogDeep Cut85points
- Black-eyed yellow bristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced GrassquitDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced HawkDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced IbisDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced Lion TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Black-flanked poison frogDeep 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.