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
- Caramel DoridDeep Cut85points
- Caranus BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Carapaz's Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Carbonated Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Carcelén’s Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Carchi Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Carchi Andes toadDeep Cut85points
- Carchi Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Carchi rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cardinal snapperDeep Cut85points
- Cardinal soldierfishDeep Cut85points
- Cardinal tetraDeep Cut85points
- CardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Cardoso's swimming frogDeep Cut85points
- Cardoso's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Carias PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Carib Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Carib FossariaDeep Cut85points
- Carib GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean bait prawnDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Banded Carpenter AntDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean carrier shellDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Christmas Tree WormDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean CorbulaDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Cross-barred VenusDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Crown ConchDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Dwarf OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Faceted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean flounderDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean HorneroDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean itch mothDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean lanceletDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Land Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Least GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Leatherleaf SlugDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean lesser funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Lichen CicadaDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean longarm shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean longfin herringDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean MartinDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean moonfishDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean nurse frogDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean pomfretDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Reef ClamDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Reef OctopusDeep 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.