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
- Wasp gobyDeep Cut85points
- Wasp mothDeep Cut85points
- Water bearDeep Cut85points
- Water boatmanDeep Cut85points
- Water fleaDeep Cut85points
- Water frogDeep Cut85points
- Water Hyacinth MothDeep Cut85points
- Water hyacinth planthopperDeep Cut85points
- Water hyacinth weevilDeep Cut85points
- Water miteDeep Cut85points
- Water mouseDeep Cut85points
- Water OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Water ratDeep Cut85points
- Water scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Water striderDeep Cut85points
- Water tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Waterhouse's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- WaterthrushDeep Cut85points
- Watkins's AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Watson's calligrapherDeep Cut85points
- Wattled CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Wattled GuanDeep Cut85points
- Wattled JacanaDeep Cut85points
- Waved AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Waved China-markDeep Cut85points
- Wavy Bubble SnailDeep Cut85points
- Wavy ChioneDeep Cut85points
- Wavy False Pug MothDeep Cut85points
- Wavy zebra plecoDeep Cut85points
- Wavy-lined Mallow MothDeep Cut85points
- Wax-tailed planthopperDeep Cut85points
- Waxy GouldclamDeep Cut85points
- Wayuu sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- WeakfishDeep Cut85points
- WeapontailDeep Cut85points
- Web burrfishDeep Cut85points
- Weber's plecoDeep Cut85points
- WebspinnerDeep Cut85points
- WebwormDeep Cut85points
- Weddel SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Weddell's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-rumped Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-shaped MartesiaDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-spotted CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-tailed Grass FinchDeep Cut85points
- Wedge-tailed HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Wedging sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Wedgling MothDeep Cut85points
- Weeks' SkipperDeep 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.