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
- Black-necked SwanDeep Cut85points
- Black-necked WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Black-olive Caterpillar MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-patch bluemarkDeep Cut85points
- Black-patched Glaphyria MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-pored snake-eelDeep Cut85points
- Black-rib LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Black-rumped AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Black-shouldered OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Black-spectacled BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Black-spined Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Black-spot HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Black-spot RemellaDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted Bare-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted casque-headed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted Feather DusterDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted SchrankiaDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Black-Spotted SkinkDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted smooth-throated lizardDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Black-streaked PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped BeamerDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped salemaDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Black-tail LinyphiidDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed TityraDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed TrainbearerDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Black-thighed PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated Blue WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated Green WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated HermitDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated Huet-huetDeep 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.