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 soleDeep Cut85points
- Brown spiny lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Brown Spitting SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Brown spotted sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Brown sucker catfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Brown tent-making batDeep Cut85points
- Brown TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Brown TitiDeep Cut85points
- Brown Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Brown Triangle SnoutDeep Cut85points
- Brown Tube SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Brown Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Brown Variable SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Brown Vine SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Brown VioletearDeep Cut85points
- Brown Wood TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Brown Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Brown-and-red SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Brown-and-yellow MarshbirdDeep Cut85points
- Brown-backed chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Brown-backed MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Brown-backed ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Brown-banded antpittaDeep Cut85points
- Brown-banded PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Brown-banded water snakeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-barred HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bellied broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bellied stipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bellied SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Brown-billed scythebillDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bordered snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bordered WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Brown-breasted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Brown-breasted pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Brown-capped tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Brown-capped tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Brown-capped VireoDeep Cut85points
- Brown-capped WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Brown-chested BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Brown-chested MartinDeep Cut85points
- Brown-crested flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Brown-eared AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Brown-eared Woolly OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Brown-eyed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Brown-flanked TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Brown-headed GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Brown-headed Spider MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Brown-hooded GullDeep Cut85points
- Brown-hooded ParrotDeep 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.