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
- Blue parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Blue PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Blue phantom plecoDeep Cut85points
- Blue PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Blue Rainbow lizardDeep Cut85points
- Blue runnerDeep Cut85points
- Blue Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Blue sea dragonDeep Cut85points
- Blue Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Blue sharkDeep Cut85points
- Blue shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Blue tetraDeep Cut85points
- Blue Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Blue Tube SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Blue-and-black TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-and-gold TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-and-orange eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Blue-and-white SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Blue-and-yellow TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-backed ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Blue-backed manakinDeep Cut85points
- Blue-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-banded MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Blue-banded ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-barred parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue-based SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Blue-based TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Blue-bearded HelmetcrestDeep Cut85points
- Blue-bellied ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Blue-billed black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Blue-billed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Blue-billed White-TernDeep Cut85points
- Blue-black GrassquitDeep Cut85points
- Blue-black GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Blue-breasted poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Blue-browed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-capped manakinDeep Cut85points
- Blue-capped PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Blue-capped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-cheek dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Blue-cheeked AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Blue-cheeked JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Blue-chested HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Blue-chinned SapphireDeep Cut85points
- Blue-crowned ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-crowned TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eye catfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eye HermitDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eye 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.