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-lined ElysiaDeep Cut85points
- Brown-lined Lemon MothDeep Cut85points
- Brown-lined PaperbubbleDeep Cut85points
- Brown-rumped foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Brown-rumped tapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Brown-shaded GrayDeep Cut85points
- Brown-shaded MimoristaDeep Cut85points
- Brown-speckled AphelodorisDeep Cut85points
- Brown-spotted dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Brown-throated ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Brown-throated Three-toed SlothDeep Cut85points
- Brown-winged EarwigDeep Cut85points
- Brown-winged schiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Brown's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Brownbelly leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Brownberg Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Brownish clamDeep Cut85points
- Brownish CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Brownish elaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Brownish twistwingDeep Cut85points
- Brownish-headed antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Brownsnout spookfishDeep Cut85points
- Brownstriped gruntDeep Cut85points
- Bruce's argentineDeep Cut85points
- Brues' Mini-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Bruised NassaDeep Cut85points
- Bruised Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bruised SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Brujo flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Brumback's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Bruno plecoDeep Cut85points
- Bruno's casque-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Brush-tailed ratDeep Cut85points
- Brushed trapdoor spiderDeep Cut85points
- BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Brushfoot butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Brushland TinamouDeep Cut85points
- BryconDeep Cut85points
- Bryde's WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Bryna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- BryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Bryozoan DrillDeep Cut85points
- Bubocula Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Bucaramanga Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Buchura river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Buckeye (butterfly)Deep Cut85points
- Buckley's Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Buckley’s glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Buckley's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Buckley's slender-legged treefrogDeep 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.