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
- Amber phantomDeep Cut85points
- Amber-banded ClubskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Amber-banded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- AmberjackDeep Cut85points
- Amberstripe scadDeep Cut85points
- AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Amblyspila SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Amboro Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Ambrax HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ambrosia LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Ambush bugDeep Cut85points
- AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Amelie's glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- American Barn OwlDeep Cut85points
- American breadcrumb spongeDeep Cut85points
- American Carrier ShellDeep Cut85points
- American Cliff SwallowDeep Cut85points
- American coastal pellonaDeep Cut85points
- American CootDeep Cut85points
- American Dewdrop SpiderDeep Cut85points
- American eelDeep Cut85points
- American FlamingoDeep Cut85points
- American freshwater gobyDeep Cut85points
- American golden silk orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- American Golden-PloverDeep Cut85points
- American Ground FrogDeep Cut85points
- American harvestfishDeep Cut85points
- American KestrelDeep Cut85points
- American LadyDeep Cut85points
- American legskateDeep Cut85points
- American NipperDeep Cut85points
- American OctopusDeep Cut85points
- American OystercatcherDeep Cut85points
- American Pygmy KingfisherDeep Cut85points
- American Red Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- American RedstartDeep Cut85points
- American sackfishDeep Cut85points
- American serpentine leafminerDeep Cut85points
- American Silkworm MothDeep Cut85points
- American SnoutDeep Cut85points
- American soleDeep Cut85points
- American spiny flounderDeep Cut85points
- American Sunflower MothDeep Cut85points
- American tarantula hawkDeep Cut85points
- American Tusk ShellDeep Cut85points
- American white lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- American whitespotted filefishDeep Cut85points
- American WigeonDeep Cut85points
- American Yellow Sac SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Amethyst WoodstarDeep 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.