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
- Daniel's Largescale LizardDeep Cut85points
- Daniel's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Danto Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Danubio Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Daphne's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dappled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Dappled catfishDeep Cut85points
- Daquilema's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Daraba Desert GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Darceta SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Dardus Underleaf ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Dares SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Daridaeus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Darién Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Darién Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Daring Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Dark Apricot SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Dark Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Dark CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Dark CerithDeep Cut85points
- Dark cheek tongueDeep Cut85points
- Dark CycadianDeep Cut85points
- Dark dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Dark Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Dark freckled catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Dark fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Dark Ghost-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dark Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dark Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Dark Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Dark long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Dark Mantis ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Dark Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Dark PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Dark Rover AntDeep Cut85points
- Dark SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Dark TelemiadesDeep Cut85points
- Dark Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Dark Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dark Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Dark Worm SnailDeep Cut85points
- Dark-backed Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Dark-banded Mantis ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Dark-banded OwletDeep Cut85points
- Dark-belled Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-bellied CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Dark-belly skateDeep Cut85points
- Dark-billed CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Dark-breasted SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Dark-cheeked Scarlet-eyeDeep 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.