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
- Amethyst-throated SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Amicus MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Ampay TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- AmphipodDeep Cut85points
- Amphiro RedringDeep Cut85points
- Amyntor GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- Amythaon FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Anaí RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Anatipes Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Anatolian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Anaxibia MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Ancash Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ancash TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Ancash Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Anchemola SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Anchicaya poison dart frogDeep Cut85points
- Anchicaya SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Anchicaya's golden dink frogDeep Cut85points
- Anchises CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- AnchovetaDeep Cut85points
- Ancient AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Ancilla VoluteDeep Cut85points
- Ancora skipperDeep Cut85points
- Andagoya CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Andagoya DragonletDeep Cut85points
- Andagoya Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Andalgala Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Andean AvocetDeep Cut85points
- Andean Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Black LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Andean Black-backed Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Andean buckeyeDeep Cut85points
- Andean Cock-of-the-rockDeep Cut85points
- Andean collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Andean cricket frogDeep Cut85points
- Andean devil rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Andean Dwarf Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Andean EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Andean FlamingoDeep Cut85points
- Andean FlickerDeep Cut85points
- Andean Forest PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Andean Gardener Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andean Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean GooseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Andean GuanDeep Cut85points
- Andean GullDeep Cut85points
- Andean HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Andean IbisDeep Cut85points
- Andean LadyDeep 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.