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
- Cyclope flounderDeep Cut85points
- Cyclops SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Cydno LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Cydonia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cydrara HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cylindrical lantern sharkDeep Cut85points
- Cyna BlueDeep Cut85points
- Cynea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cynosura eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Cypress EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Cypris MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Cyprius SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Cypselus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Cyrus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cytheris FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- D’Andrea's PunareDeep Cut85points
- D'Elía's Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- D'Orbigny's Banded AnoleDeep Cut85points
- D'Orbigny's Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- D'Orbigny's sliderDeep Cut85points
- D'Orbigny's toadDeep Cut85points
- DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Dagger eyemarkDeep Cut85points
- DaggerbillDeep Cut85points
- Daggernose sharkDeep Cut85points
- DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Dagmar’s dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Dagua ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Dahl's toad-headed turtleDeep Cut85points
- Dahners' HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Dainty Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Dainty SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Daisy midshipmanDeep Cut85points
- Daleswanson's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Dall's ChromodoridDeep Cut85points
- Dall's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Dalla-like SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dalmatian sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Dama SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Damippe FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Damsel bassDeep Cut85points
- DamselfishDeep Cut85points
- DamselflyDeep Cut85points
- Dana pearleyeDeep Cut85points
- Dana swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Dana viperfishDeep Cut85points
- Danaid EggflyDeep Cut85points
- Dancer (damselfly)Deep Cut85points
- Dancing Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Daniel's KeelbackDeep 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.