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
- Blackfin grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin jackDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin snapperDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin snookDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin sorcererDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin spiderfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin tunaDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin waryfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfinned clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfinned Rubbernose PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Blackfinned toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Blackflash ribbonfishDeep Cut85points
- BlackflyDeep Cut85points
- Blackhead blennyDeep Cut85points
- Blackhead lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackish AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Chat-TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Blackish CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Hairy Dwarf PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Blackish NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Blackish OystercatcherDeep Cut85points
- Blackish PeweeDeep Cut85points
- Blackish RailDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Blackish skateDeep Cut85points
- Blackish TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Blackish-blue SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Blackish-gray AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Blackish-headed SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Blackline myleusDeep Cut85points
- Blackline penguinfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackline tetraDeep Cut85points
- Blackline tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Blacklipped pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Blackmouth bassDeep Cut85points
- Blackmouth eelpoutDeep Cut85points
- Blackmouth pyrrhulinaDeep Cut85points
- Blacknose sharkDeep Cut85points
- Blacknosed butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackpoint sculling crabDeep Cut85points
- Blackpoll WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Blacksmith ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Blacksmith tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Blackspot porgyDeep Cut85points
- Blackspot wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Blackspotted grenadierDeep 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.