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
- Blond-crested WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Blood ArkDeep Cut85points
- Blood Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Blood Red SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Blood-colored WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Bloodfin Bulldog PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Bloodfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Bloodfinned dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Bloodgill dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- BloodwormDeep Cut85points
- Bloody bay poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Bloody frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Bloody Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- BlossomcrownDeep Cut85points
- Blotchbelly AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Blotchcheek gobyDeep Cut85points
- Blotched DiaululaDeep Cut85points
- Blotched Leopard MothDeep Cut85points
- Blotched sand skateDeep Cut85points
- Blotched stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Blotched Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blotcheye soldierfishDeep Cut85points
- BlowflyDeep Cut85points
- Blue acaraDeep Cut85points
- Blue and gold snapperDeep Cut85points
- Blue and Orange Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Blue anoleDeep Cut85points
- Blue antimoraDeep Cut85points
- Blue boboDeep Cut85points
- Blue butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Blue ButtonDeep Cut85points
- Blue chromisDeep Cut85points
- Blue corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Blue cotingaDeep Cut85points
- Blue crabDeep Cut85points
- Blue croakerDeep Cut85points
- Blue crust coralDeep Cut85points
- Blue DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Blue Dentate Moss AnimalDeep Cut85points
- Blue dewlap anoleDeep Cut85points
- Blue DiamondDeep Cut85points
- Blue discusDeep Cut85points
- Blue dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Blue fatheadDeep Cut85points
- Blue fin thresher plecoDeep Cut85points
- Blue FinchDeep Cut85points
- Blue Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Blue Land CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blue musselDeep Cut85points
- Blue panaqueDeep 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.