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
- Brown BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Brown Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Brown bromeliad frogDeep Cut85points
- Brown bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Brown cacholoteDeep Cut85points
- Brown CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Brown catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Brown Chilean Leaf-footed BugDeep Cut85points
- Brown chromisDeep Cut85points
- Brown Colonial AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown Comb JellyDeep Cut85points
- Brown coscarobDeep Cut85points
- Brown Cotton LeafwormDeep Cut85points
- Brown CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Brown DiscodorisDeep Cut85points
- Brown Dot PeckoltiaDeep Cut85points
- Brown driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown Dwarf GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Brown Egg FrogDeep Cut85points
- Brown Encrusting Octopus SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Brown FanwormDeep Cut85points
- Brown Featherstar ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Brown finned Cactus PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Brown fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Brown garden eelDeep Cut85points
- Brown ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Brown gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Brown Grass ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Brown GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- Brown Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Brown Guard CrabDeep Cut85points
- Brown HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Brown IncaDeep Cut85points
- Brown JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Brown Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Brown LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Brown mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Brown moonsnailDeep Cut85points
- Brown NoddyDeep Cut85points
- Brown NunletDeep Cut85points
- Brown PelicanDeep Cut85points
- Brown pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown PrionodactylusDeep Cut85points
- Brown Rock Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Brown Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Brown SetwingDeep Cut85points
- Brown shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Brown sipoDeep Cut85points
- Brown SkuaDeep Cut85points
- Brown smooth-houndDeep 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.