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
- Broadfin lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Broadgill catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Broadhead Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Broadnose sevengill sharkDeep Cut85points
- Broadnose skateDeep Cut85points
- Broadnose worm eelDeep Cut85points
- Broadsnout grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Broadstripe gobyDeep Cut85points
- Broadstripe silversideDeep Cut85points
- Broadstriped dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Brock's yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Brocket deerDeep Cut85points
- Broken SilverdropDeep Cut85points
- Brokenband cleaner gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bromelia TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bromeliad HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Bromeliad marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Bromeliad Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bromeliad Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Brongersma's Worm SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bronze cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Bronze corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Bronze RubyspotDeep Cut85points
- Bronze whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-brown CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-green EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-olive pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-tailed CometDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-tailed PlumeleteerDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-tailed ThornbillDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-winged ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Bronzed CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bronzestripe gruntDeep Cut85points
- Bronzy HermitDeep Cut85points
- Bronzy IncaDeep Cut85points
- Bronzy JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Brooding Smooth Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Brooding spiny brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Brook plecoDeep Cut85points
- Broomfin dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Broomstraw-spined PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Broomtail grouperDeep Cut85points
- Brosset's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Broteas Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- BrotulaDeep Cut85points
- Brown AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Brown and Yellow SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Brown Baby EarDeep Cut85points
- Brown basiliskDeep Cut85points
- Brown BoobyDeep 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.