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
- Andean LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Andean LaniisomaDeep Cut85points
- Andean LapwingDeep Cut85points
- Andean Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean longtailDeep Cut85points
- Andean MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Andean Mountain CatDeep Cut85points
- Andean MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean NegritoDeep Cut85points
- Andean Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Andean Orange-thighed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Andean ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Andean poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Andean PotooDeep Cut85points
- Andean Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Andean RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean Red Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andean Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Andean SilverspotDeep Cut85points
- Andean SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Andean Slaty ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Andean SolitaireDeep Cut85points
- Andean SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Andean Stick InsectDeep Cut85points
- Andean SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Andean Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Andean TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Andean TealDeep Cut85points
- Andean TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Andean Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Andean Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Andean Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean White-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Andersson Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Andersson's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Andes Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Andes coryDeep Cut85points
- Andes Dampwood TermiteDeep Cut85points
- Andes frogDeep 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.