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
- Cantra Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Canyon CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Canyon RubyspotDeep Cut85points
- Capão bonito casque-headed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Caparaó flea-toadDeep Cut85points
- Caparao Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Caparao Mountains tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Caparu forest frogDeep Cut85points
- CapazDeep Cut85points
- Cape fatheadDeep Cut85points
- Cape May WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Cape Mussel WormDeep Cut85points
- Cape snaggletoothDeep Cut85points
- Cape Verde ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Cape wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Capenas BluewingDeep Cut85points
- Caper-leaf Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Capistrata Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Capixaba nectar-feeding batDeep Cut85points
- Capped ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Capped HeronDeep Cut85points
- Capricorn Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Capricorn lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Capricorn scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Capuchin Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- CapuchinbirdDeep Cut85points
- Capurí rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Caqueta AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Caqueta Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Caqueta Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Caquetá Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Caquetá TitiDeep Cut85points
- CaráDeep Cut85points
- Carabali shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Carabaya Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Carabaya stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Carabaya toadDeep Cut85points
- Carabobo SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Caraca SkipperDeep Cut85points
- CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Caracas BlindsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Caracas BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Caracas collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Caracas Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Caracas snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Caracas TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Caracciolo's stripe-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Caracol Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Caralis PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Caramaschi's tree 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.