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
- Burrowing barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing brown anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing crayfishDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing mouseDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing Night SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing shaggy sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Burtons' Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bush anoleDeep Cut85points
- Bush DogDeep Cut85points
- Bush tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- BushbirdDeep Cut85points
- BushmasterDeep Cut85points
- Bushy hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bushy-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Bushymouth catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bussing's drumDeep Cut85points
- Bustamante's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Butantan MicrocaeciliaDeep Cut85points
- Butler's Hoary-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Butler's SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Butler's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Butler's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Butter hamletDeep Cut85points
- Buttercup LucineDeep Cut85points
- ButterfishDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly CoquetteDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly kingfishDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly PlecDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly skateDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly-head Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- ButterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Button SnailDeep Cut85points
- Button TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Buysson's Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- By-the-wind SailorDeep Cut85points
- Byron TivelaDeep Cut85points
- Caalaya Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga antwrenDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga cacholoteDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Caatinga LanceheadDeep 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.