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
- Yellowfin grouperDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin herringDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin jackDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin notothenDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin river pellonaDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin snookDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowhead jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowhead wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Yellowhump eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish myotisDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish PipitDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellowleg shrimpDeep Cut85points
- YellowlegsDeep Cut85points
- Yellowline Arrow CrabDeep Cut85points
- Yellowline gobyDeep Cut85points
- Yellowmouth grouperDeep Cut85points
- Yellownose gobyDeep Cut85points
- Yellownose skateDeep Cut85points
- Yellowprow gobyDeep Cut85points
- Yellowspotted gruntDeep Cut85points
- Yellowspotted Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Yellowstem dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowstripe gruntDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail amberjackDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail bassDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail hamletDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail snapperDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtailed dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- YellowthroatDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtip damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Yepez' tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Yojoa Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Yonenaga's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Yonenga Worm SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ypiranga button frogDeep Cut85points
- Yumbo RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Yumbo riamaDeep Cut85points
- Yungas coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yungas GuanDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Yungas ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Rice RatDeep 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.