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
- Boulenger's Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's False Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Green AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Largescale LizardDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Least GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's snaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's sun teguDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Tree LizardDeep Cut85points
- Boulenger's Tree SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Boullet's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Boullet's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bourcier's Saphenophis SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bow knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Bow-winged ActinoteDeep Cut85points
- Box Fire CoralDeep Cut85points
- Box sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Box-like RotiferDeep Cut85points
- BoxfishDeep Cut85points
- Boyaca antpittaDeep Cut85points
- Boyaca giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Boyaca Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Boyaca's painted harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Boyd's ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Brack's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Braconid waspDeep Cut85points
- Bradley's Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Braestrup's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Bragança tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Braided GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Braided Shadow SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Braided Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Bramble sharkDeep Cut85points
- Bran-colored flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Branched Finger CoralDeep Cut85points
- Branching AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Branching Fire CoralDeep Cut85points
- Branching Tube SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Branching Vase SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Branco Giant PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Branco Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Brasilia SkipperDeep 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.