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
- Western Atlantic seabreamDeep Cut85points
- Western Atlantic Striped False LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Western Atlantic torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Western BasiliskDeep Cut85points
- Western Black-handed TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Western bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Western broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Western catfishDeep Cut85points
- Western Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Western collared spiny lizardDeep Cut85points
- Western Colombian Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Western Colombian Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Western Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Western EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Western Fire-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Western Greater Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Western Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Western HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Western Indigo SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Western Leaf LizardDeep Cut85points
- Western Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Western Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Western Lowland OlingoDeep Cut85points
- Western luminous roughyDeep Cut85points
- Western nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Western Olivaceous FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Western plant bugDeep Cut85points
- Western Puna MouseDeep Cut85points
- Western Pygmy-BlueDeep Cut85points
- Western ribbon coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Western round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Western SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Western softhead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Western Spiny Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Western Spotted OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Western Strawberry CockleDeep Cut85points
- Western Striolated-PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Western TapetiDeep Cut85points
- western white shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Western Wood-peweeDeep Cut85points
- Western WoodhaunterDeep Cut85points
- Western Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Western worm-eating coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Westland PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Westwood’s SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Wettstein's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Wetzel's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Weygoldt's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Weymer’s FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Whale catfishDeep 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.