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
- Yungas SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Yungas tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Yungas TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Yungas WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Yuraccyacu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Yurimaguas poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Yuruani glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Yuruaní RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Yustiz's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Zabaleta anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Zagaia treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Zaher's Shadow SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Zalates SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Zale MothDeep Cut85points
- Zamora Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Zamoran Shadow SnakeDeep Cut85points
- ZamuritoDeep Cut85points
- Zapadores Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Zapala frogDeep Cut85points
- Zapala SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Zapallaren Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Zaparo's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Zapatero rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Zarza glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Zava HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Zavaleta glasswingDeep Cut85points
- Zebra AcaraDeep Cut85points
- zebra apple snailDeep Cut85points
- Zebra catfishDeep Cut85points
- Zebra cockroachDeep Cut85points
- Zebra Conchylodes MothDeep Cut85points
- Zebra KnifefishDeep Cut85points
- Zebra LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Zebra morayDeep Cut85points
- Zebra NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Zebra PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Zebra Pike CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Zebra plecoDeep Cut85points
- Zebra shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Zebra-striped HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Zebra-tipped MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Zebratail coryDeep Cut85points
- Zebrette gobyDeep Cut85points
- Zela SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Zeledon's AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Zeledon's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Zelinda's parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Zephus MylonDeep Cut85points
- Zera SkipperDeep 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.