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-eared WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-edged FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-edged morayDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-edged Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced GrassquitDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-footed tortoiseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-fronted WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- yellow-green candle spongeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-green GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-green TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-green VireoDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-handed TitiDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed Calico SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed geckoDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed SipoDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-hooded BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-knobbed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged darnerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-lined BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-lined skimmerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-lored TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-mandibled SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-margined FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-margined leaf beetleDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-mouth pikeblennyDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-nosed AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-olive FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-painted poison-arrow frogDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-patched Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rimmed Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rimmed Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rimmed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped MarshbirdDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-scarfed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-shouldered AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-shouldered calligrapherDeep 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.