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
- Cajamarca rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cajamarca Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cajanuma Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cajas stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Calaça's White-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Calamitous Shadow SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Calaon SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Calcarea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Calchinia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Caldas Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Caldas HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Caldas Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Caldas snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Caldwell's Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Calf frogDeep Cut85points
- Cali Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cali toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Calico Blepharomastix MothDeep Cut85points
- Calico ClamDeep Cut85points
- Calientes Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- California BonfireDeep Cut85points
- California butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- California grenadierDeep Cut85points
- California halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- California headlightfishDeep Cut85points
- California kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- California lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- California morayDeep Cut85points
- California slickheadDeep Cut85points
- California smoothtongueDeep Cut85points
- Californian needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Caligula SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Calilegua's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Calima SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Caliper beetleDeep Cut85points
- Callao drumDeep Cut85points
- Calliomma SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Calus GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Calypso tetraDeep Cut85points
- Camacuto shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Camamu Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cambara smooth horned frogDeep Cut85points
- Camel cricketDeep Cut85points
- Camel spiderDeep Cut85points
- Camelback Tmarus Crab SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Camiari Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Camila's Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Camila’s Patagonian Rocky LizardDeep Cut85points
- Camoati WaspDeep Cut85points
- CamotilloDeep 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.