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
- Bluntnose jackDeep Cut85points
- Bluntnose knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Bluntnose sixgill sharkDeep Cut85points
- Bluntnose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bluntsnout lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluntsnout smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Bluntspine blennyDeep Cut85points
- Blunttooth swimcrabDeep Cut85points
- Blurred Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Blurred smooth lantern sharkDeep Cut85points
- Blurry AnastrusDeep Cut85points
- Blurry SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Blurry-striped LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Blush Conchylodes MothDeep Cut85points
- Blushing Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- Boa catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Boa dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Boa Nova tapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Boa União heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Boada's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Boat Ear Moon SnailDeep Cut85points
- Boat-billed flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Boat-billed HeronDeep Cut85points
- Boat-billed tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Bob Ridgely's Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Bob Wisner's hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Bobo mulletDeep Cut85points
- BobolinkDeep Cut85points
- Bobtail eelDeep Cut85points
- Bobtail squidDeep Cut85points
- BobwhiteDeep Cut85points
- Boca do Mato tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Bocage's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Bocaina dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Bock's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- BocoDeep Cut85points
- Bocon toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Bocono Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bocono rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Bocourt's AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Bocourt's Dwarf IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Bocourt's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bocourt's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Boddaert's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Boehlke's coralbrotulaDeep Cut85points
- Boehmei's poison arrow frogDeep Cut85points
- Boeseman's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Boeseman's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Boesman's TetraDeep Cut85points
- Boettger's AnoleDeep 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.