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
- Wilson's Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Wimple piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Window-winged MothDeep Cut85points
- Windward CriboDeep Cut85points
- Windward Islands DitchfrogDeep Cut85points
- Wine Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Wine-glass HydroidsDeep Cut85points
- Wine-tinted Oenobotys MothDeep Cut85points
- Wing ShellDeep Cut85points
- Wing-banded AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Wing-banded HorneroDeep Cut85points
- Wing-banded WrenDeep Cut85points
- Wing-barred PipritesDeep Cut85points
- Wing-barred SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Winged dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Wingfin anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Wingfin snaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Winter climbing salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Wire Coral ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Wire-crested ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Wire-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Wisner's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Wispy threadtailDeep Cut85points
- Witch guitarfishDeep Cut85points
- Witch mothDeep Cut85points
- Withered MocisDeep Cut85points
- Wobbly Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Wokomung massif emerald-barred frogDeep Cut85points
- Wolf coryDeep Cut85points
- Wolffsohn's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Wolffsohn's Mountain ViscachaDeep Cut85points
- Wolverine PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Wood quailDeep Cut85points
- Wood railDeep Cut85points
- Wood Sprite OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Wood StorkDeep Cut85points
- Wood turtleDeep Cut85points
- Wood wrenDeep Cut85points
- Wood-peweeDeep Cut85points
- Wood's brown coneDeep Cut85points
- Woodall's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Woodeating lasiancistrusDeep Cut85points
- WoodhaunterDeep Cut85points
- Woodland Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Woodley's StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- WoodlizardDeep Cut85points
- WoodnymphDeep Cut85points
- Woodpecker FinchDeep Cut85points
- Woodpecker flyDeep 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.