Krillion Recorded answers
19,397 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 19,397
- Alligator weed thripsDeep Cut85points
- Alligatorweed Stemborer MothDeep Cut85points
- Allipaca Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Allpahuayo AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Allpapuyu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Allround CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Almaden Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Almadina tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Almeida toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Almendáriz’s MicroteguDeep Cut85points
- Almendariz's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Almendariz's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Almoda SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alope SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Alphabet ConeDeep Cut85points
- Alphonse's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Alpinopolis snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Alsimo SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alta Floresta AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Altama SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alternate Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Alternate tellinDeep Cut85points
- Altiplano Chinchilla MouseDeep Cut85points
- Altiplano Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Alto button frogDeep Cut85points
- Alto da Serra big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Alto Marañon toadDeep Cut85points
- Alto Tambo woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Altum angelfishDeep Cut85points
- Alumna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alvarez's mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Amadryas SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Amaguaña's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Amalda GlasswingDeep Cut85points
- Amalfi rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Amanda Jane's coryDeep Cut85points
- Amapa corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Amapá TetraDeep Cut85points
- Amapa treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Amarakaeri poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Amarakaeri's Big-headed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Amaral's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Amaral's Brazilian GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Amaral's ColobosauraDeep Cut85points
- Amaral's ground snakeDeep Cut85points
- Amaral's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Amathites Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Amathonte MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Amazilia HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Bamboo 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.