Krillion Recorded answers
19,409 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 19,409
- Amazon Sapphire Pinktoe TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Amazon SapphirewingDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Scarlet SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Amazon SeedlingDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Slope Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Amazon spinejaw spratDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Thorn SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Tree BoaDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Tropical Forest SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Amazon Water SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Amazon WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Amazon zebra shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Amazonas rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonas Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Barred-woodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Beardless-tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Black-throated TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian common mustached batDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian giant centipedeDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Long-tailed PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian milk frogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian monkey frogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian nurse-frogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Plain-xenopsDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Red-sided OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Scrub-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Streaked-antwrenDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian teiidDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian tiny tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Toad-headed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Tricolor CentipedeDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian UmbrellabirdDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Violaceous-TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Wandering SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Amber Pen ShellDeep 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.