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-throated MangoDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated toucanetDeep Cut85points
- Black-throated TreesnailDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped Ptichodis MothDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped Stripe-streakDeep Cut85points
- Black-top Mouse CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Black-topped EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Black-tufted-ear MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Black-veined BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Black-veined FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Black-veined HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Black-veined YellowDeep Cut85points
- Black-velvet LeatherleafDeep Cut85points
- Black-vented Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Black-whiskered VireoDeep Cut85points
- Black-winged DragonletDeep Cut85points
- Black-winged Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Black-winged ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Black-winged SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Blackback Land CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blackback silversideDeep Cut85points
- Blackbar drumDeep Cut85points
- Blackbar soldierfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackbelly Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Blackbelly rosefishDeep Cut85points
- Blackbelly skateDeep Cut85points
- Blackberry DrupeDeep Cut85points
- Blackblotch pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Blackburn's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Blackburnian WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Blackcap bassletDeep Cut85points
- Blackcheek blennyDeep Cut85points
- Blackcheek tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Blackchin blacksmeltDeep Cut85points
- Blackear bassDeep Cut85points
- Blackear cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Blackear wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Blackedge cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Blackedge tetraDeep Cut85points
- Blackedge triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin croakerDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin goosefishDeep 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.