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
- Caatinga white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Cabaceira Grande snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Cabanis's spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage Budworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage Looper MothDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage MurexDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Cabinza gruntDeep Cut85points
- Cable's gobyDeep Cut85points
- Cabocolo tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Cabra snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cabra treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cabrera's spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Cabreria spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Cacao Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cacao Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Caceres Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cachabi Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cachema weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Cachimbo tree frogDeep Cut85points
- CacholoteDeep Cut85points
- Cactus canasteroDeep Cut85points
- Cactus finchDeep Cut85points
- Cactus Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Cactus MothDeep Cut85points
- Cactus ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- CaddisflyDeep Cut85points
- Cadena-García's big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Cadena's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Cadena's tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Cadmeis MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Caenides SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Caesar gruntDeep Cut85points
- Caesaries GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Caete river dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Cagua treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Caica ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Caicus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Caicus SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Caiman lizardDeep Cut85points
- Cainarachi glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Cainarachi poison frogDeep Cut85points
- CaiqueDeep Cut85points
- Caissara SquamataDeep Cut85points
- Caitipa mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Cajamarca antpittaDeep Cut85points
- Cajamarca GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Cajamarca Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cajamarca RainfrogDeep 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.