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
- Whalehead dreamerDeep Cut85points
- WhalesuckerDeep Cut85points
- Wharf LouseDeep Cut85points
- Wheat Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Wheel bugDeep Cut85points
- WhelkDeep Cut85points
- WhimbrelDeep Cut85points
- Whip scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Whip snakeDeep Cut85points
- Whip spiderDeep Cut85points
- Whipala sipoDeep Cut85points
- Whiptailed loricariaDeep Cut85points
- WhirlaboutDeep Cut85points
- Whirligig beetleDeep Cut85points
- Whiskered WrenDeep Cut85points
- Whistling duckDeep Cut85points
- Whistling dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Whistling foam frogDeep Cut85points
- Whistling HeronDeep Cut85points
- Whistling Long-tailed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Whistling Masked FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- White Angled-SulphurDeep Cut85points
- White Atlantic SemeleDeep Cut85points
- White Baby EarDeep Cut85points
- White Bald UacariDeep Cut85points
- White bearded arkDeep Cut85points
- White BellbirdDeep Cut85points
- White bottlebrush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- White brooding brittle starDeep Cut85points
- White butterflyDeep Cut85points
- White coryDeep Cut85points
- White doradoDeep Cut85points
- White Flannel MothDeep Cut85points
- White gruntDeep Cut85points
- White HawkDeep Cut85points
- White IbisDeep Cut85points
- White margateDeep Cut85points
- White Maze CoralDeep Cut85points
- White MelampusDeep Cut85points
- White MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- White MicrathenaDeep Cut85points
- White Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- White Miniature ArkDeep Cut85points
- White MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- White mulletDeep Cut85points
- White NassaDeep Cut85points
- White PeacockDeep Cut85points
- White piranhaDeep Cut85points
- White Pygmy VenusDeep Cut85points
- White SailorDeep 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.