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
- Bonaire WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Bonaparte's ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Bonarian Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Bonda mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- BonefishDeep Cut85points
- Bonehead coryDeep Cut85points
- Bonfilus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- BonitoDeep Cut85points
- Bonito tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- BonnetheadDeep Cut85points
- BonnetmouthDeep Cut85points
- Bonsai tree hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bony-eared assfishDeep Cut85points
- Booted Racket-tailDeep Cut85points
- Boqueron Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Boquete rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Boraceia button frogDeep Cut85points
- Boraceia robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Boraceia tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Borax Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Bordered PatchDeep Cut85points
- Bordered Wedge-shaped BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Borderlander harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Boreas SisterDeep Cut85points
- Borelli's Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Boring MusselsDeep Cut85points
- Boring pumpkin spongeDeep Cut85points
- Boring SpongesDeep Cut85points
- Borriqueta porgyDeep Cut85points
- Bos SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Boshell's Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- BotflyDeep Cut85points
- Bottle toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- BottlelightDeep Cut85points
- Bottleneck Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Bottlenose catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bottom-spotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Botucatu Smooth-horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Botucatu tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Botumirim tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Bougainville's celleporellaDeep Cut85points
- Bougainvillea Caterpillar MothDeep Cut85points
- Boulder Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Boulder FinchDeep Cut85points
- Boulder star coralDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Backpack frogDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Bush 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.