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
- Yellow finchDeep Cut85points
- yellow finger marsh crabDeep Cut85points
- Yellow fire waspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow furry-legsDeep Cut85points
- Yellow goatfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellow head coryDeep Cut85points
- Yellow heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow jackDeep Cut85points
- Yellow MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Yellow mimic oil-diggerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Mocis MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Moon SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow MusselDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Nose ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Yellow OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Yellow painted frogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Pencil CoralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Prickly CockleDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow rabbit characinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Scallop MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow sea chubDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Seam Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Yellow snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Yellow snapperDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Speckled Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Spragueia MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Yellow teguDeep Cut85points
- Yellow tetraDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Tube SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Umbrella SlugDeep Cut85points
- Yellow uruçu beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow warblerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-backed OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded bassletDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded BirdeaterDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Pinktoe TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded pitted-resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded poison dart frogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-barred SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied DacnisDeep 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.