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
- Caribbean reef sharkDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Reef SquidDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Rock Mantis ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean roughsharkDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean sculptured sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Sea MatDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean sharpnose sharkDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean sharpnose-pufferDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Spiny Jewel BoxDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Spiny LimaDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Spiny LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean treerunnerDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Upsidedown JellyDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean VaseDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean velvet shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Warty AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Winged MactraDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean YellowfaceDeep Cut85points
- Cariri Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Carla HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Carla's coryDeep Cut85points
- Carlos' Mottled-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Carmelita LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Carmelita PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Carmelita's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Carmelitano catfishDeep Cut85points
- Carmelus meridanusDeep Cut85points
- Carminaltica uniformisDeep Cut85points
- Carmine grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Carmine skimmerDeep Cut85points
- Carmiol's TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Carneades personataDeep Cut85points
- Carneades quadrinodosaDeep Cut85points
- Carnegie's toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Carnica HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Carnis SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Carolina Dung BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Carolina Ghost ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Carolina hammerheadDeep Cut85points
- Carolina SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Carolines parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Carolyn's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Carousing MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Carp headstanderDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter mothDeep 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.