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
- Brazilian stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Starlet CoralDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Steppe IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Stick MantisDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Striped Bird EaterDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian swimming frogDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian TealDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian ThestiusDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Three-banded ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian treehopperDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian VoluteDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian White-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian whiteknee tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian whitetail dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Woodland RacerDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian yellow scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian-M HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Breast toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Brenda Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bresslau's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Bressou sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Brewer's carrying frogDeep Cut85points
- Brewster's BoobyDeep Cut85points
- Brick seabassDeep Cut85points
- Brick SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bridges' ameivaDeep Cut85points
- Bridges's DeguDeep Cut85points
- Bridle cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Bridled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Bridled burrfishDeep Cut85points
- Bridled gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bridled sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Bridled TernDeep Cut85points
- Brien's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Bright anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Bright BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Bright lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Bright PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Bright silversideDeep Cut85points
- Bright-centered EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Bright-colored RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Bright-rumped attilaDeep Cut85points
- Bright-rumped Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant AnastrusDeep 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.