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-throated toucanetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped DasherDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-topped SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tufted StarthroatDeep Cut85points
- Blue-washed MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Blue-whiskered TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged Eurybia ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged MacawDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged TealDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Blueband dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluebanded gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bluebelly poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Blueberry tetraDeep Cut85points
- Bluefin driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluefin trevallyDeep Cut85points
- BluefishDeep Cut85points
- BlueheadDeep Cut85points
- Blueleg Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bluelip hamletDeep Cut85points
- Bluelip parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluenose warehouDeep Cut85points
- Bluespotted cornetfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluespotted corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Bluespotted searobinDeep Cut85points
- Bluestreak drumDeep Cut85points
- Bluestripe pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Bluestriped chubDeep Cut85points
- Bluestriped gruntDeep Cut85points
- Bluethroat pikeblennyDeep Cut85points
- Bluewing ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Bluewing searobinDeep Cut85points
- Bluish FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Bluish LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Bluish Mottled-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bluish Top ShellDeep Cut85points
- Bluish-fronted JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Bluish-grey SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Bluish-slate antshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Blumenau button frogDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-end SeahareDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-spined Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-tentacled AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-toothed snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Blunthead pufferDeep Cut85points
- Blunthead Tree SnakeDeep 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.