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
- White salemaDeep Cut85points
- White SatyrDeep Cut85points
- White Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- White sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- White sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- White sea crustDeep Cut85points
- White Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- white sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- White snake mackerelDeep Cut85points
- White snookDeep Cut85points
- White spectacled teguDeep Cut85points
- White spot rubbernose plecoDeep Cut85points
- White stardrumDeep Cut85points
- White stripe coryDeep Cut85points
- White striped coryDeep Cut85points
- White suckerfishDeep Cut85points
- White ternDeep Cut85points
- White TheopeDeep Cut85points
- White tipped tentacle sea slugDeep Cut85points
- White trevallyDeep Cut85points
- White warehouDeep Cut85points
- White witch mothDeep Cut85points
- White WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- White YellowDeep Cut85points
- White-banded Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- White-banded FiretipDeep Cut85points
- White-banded HornydickDeep Cut85points
- White-banded MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- White-banded Mountain SatyrDeep Cut85points
- White-banded SatyrDeep Cut85points
- White-banded SwallowDeep Cut85points
- White-banded tree frogDeep Cut85points
- White-banded TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- White-bar Mountain SatyrDeep Cut85points
- White-barred PiculetDeep Cut85points
- White-barred TigerDeep Cut85points
- White-base Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- White-bearded AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- White-bearded FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- White-bearded HelmetcrestDeep Cut85points
- White-bearded HermitDeep Cut85points
- White-bearded ManakinDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied DacnisDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied NothuraDeep 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.