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
- Camouflaged catfishDeep Cut85points
- Camouflaged harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Camouflaged SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Camouflaged spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Camouflaged Spiny Sea CradleDeep Cut85points
- Campbell whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Campina ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Campinas tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Campo Belo snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Campo FlickerDeep Cut85points
- Campo Grande button frogDeep Cut85points
- Campo MinerDeep Cut85points
- Campo TroupialDeep Cut85points
- Can-opener smoothdreamDeep Cut85points
- Canabrava catfishDeep Cut85points
- Canada WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Canal Scarlet-EyeDeep Cut85points
- Canal zone treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cañari Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Canary-winged ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Canastra snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cancellate CantharusDeep Cut85points
- Cancellate MusselDeep Cut85points
- Cancellated ClamDeep Cut85points
- Canchaque Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Canchaque Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Canchimala sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Candid HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Candiope CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- CandiruDeep Cut85points
- Cando Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Candy bassletDeep Cut85points
- Cane mouseDeep Cut85points
- Canebrake GroundcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Canebrake tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Canebrake treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Canelos Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Canelos tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Canelos treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Canga swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Caninius HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Caniola SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Canjica AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Canna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cannatella's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cannatella's plump toadDeep Cut85points
- Cannonball JellyDeep Cut85points
- Cano toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Cantillana spiny-chest 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.