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
- Brilliant AntirrheaDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant bristlenose plecoDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant South American GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant-thighed poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Brimo EmesisDeep Cut85points
- Brindled Shawl MothDeep Cut85points
- Brine shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Brino SilverpatchDeep Cut85points
- Bristle wormDeep Cut85points
- Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Bristled lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Bristled Rubble CrabDeep Cut85points
- BristlefrontDeep Cut85points
- BristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Bristlemouth catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bristlenose plecoDeep Cut85points
- BristletailDeep Cut85points
- Bristly grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Bristly mound fieldsDeep Cut85points
- Bristly mouseDeep Cut85points
- Bristly searobinDeep Cut85points
- Britski's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Britski's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Broad Banded-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Broad stripe coryDeep Cut85points
- Broad tail Cactus PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Broad-banded FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Broad-billed MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Broad-eared free-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Broad-footed Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Broad-fronted Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Broad-headed Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Broad-headed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Broad-headed woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Broad-snouted caimanDeep Cut85points
- Broad-striped anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Broad-tipped ConeheadDeep Cut85points
- Broad-tipped HermitDeep Cut85points
- Broad-toothed tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Broad-winged HawkDeep Cut85points
- Broadback Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Broadback Urn CrabDeep Cut85points
- Broadband anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Broadbanded lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Broadbanded morayDeep Cut85points
- Broaddus' rainfrogDeep 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.