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
- Xingu LipbrooderDeep Cut85points
- Xingu Scale-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Xingu ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Xingu Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Yacambú collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Yacare caimanDeep Cut85points
- Yacuri marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Yaku glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Yam Babybody SnailDeep Cut85points
- Yanachaga toadDeep Cut85points
- Yanayacu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yanesha tree microteguDeep Cut85points
- Yánez Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yanez's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Yano's snipe eelDeep Cut85points
- Yantzaza's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Yapacana AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yapacana white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Yapima shield frogDeep Cut85points
- Yapitya Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yapitya rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Yariguíes SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Yarmal Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Yasuni bromeliad treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Yasuni Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yasuni rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Yasuní treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Yates's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Yates's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Yavi RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Yawning stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Ybyra Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow acaraDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Acorn WormDeep Cut85points
- Yellow anacondaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Angled-SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Yellow blennyDeep Cut85points
- Yellow boboDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Box CrabDeep Cut85points
- Yellow CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Yellow clamDeep Cut85points
- Yellow congerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow coryDeep Cut85points
- Yellow cururu toadDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Diacme MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Yellow FanwormDeep 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.