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
- Castaño’s GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Castanochilus bruchianusDeep Cut85points
- Castello's apron numbfishDeep Cut85points
- Castelnau's AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Castimonia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Castin leatherjacketDeep Cut85points
- Castolus pallidusDeep Cut85points
- Castolus plagiaticollisDeep Cut85points
- Castolus Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Castor SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Castoraeschna coronataDeep Cut85points
- Castoraeschna longfieldaeDeep Cut85points
- Castra SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Castroviejo glass-frogDeep Cut85points
- Casuhatien AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Cat-eyed snakeDeep Cut85points
- Cat's Claw Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Catamarca Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Catamarca Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Catenes australisDeep Cut85points
- Catesby's RissoDeep Cut85points
- Catesby's snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Catharina snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Catochra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Catogenus decoratusDeep Cut85points
- Catonia ornatipennisDeep Cut85points
- Catorhintha schaffneriDeep Cut85points
- Catrea MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Catrimania semivitreaDeep Cut85points
- CatsharkDeep Cut85points
- Cattail mothDeep Cut85points
- Cattle EgretDeep Cut85points
- Cattle TyrantDeep Cut85points
- CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Cattleheart whiteDeep Cut85points
- Catula CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Cauca Beardless-tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Cauca CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Cauca Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Cauca GuanDeep Cut85points
- Cauca mollyDeep Cut85points
- Cauca poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Cauca Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cauca rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cauca treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- cauque river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Caura AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Caura coryDeep Cut85points
- Cavaquina Slipper LobsterDeep 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.