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
- Cave bassDeep Cut85points
- Cave cobweb spiderDeep Cut85points
- CavyDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne JayDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Cayenne tickDeep Cut85points
- Cazuza's SakiDeep Cut85points
- Ceara bulldog coryDeep Cut85points
- Ceara GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Ceara white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Ceara WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Cebolleta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cecina EmeraldstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cedros button frogDeep Cut85points
- Cedros Smooth Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cei's EscuerzoDeep Cut85points
- Cei's Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Cei's Mountain LizardDeep Cut85points
- Ceiba borerDeep Cut85points
- Celadon SisterDeep Cut85points
- Celery Leaftier MothDeep Cut85points
- Celeste's pikeblennyDeep Cut85points
- Celia's Ur-SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Cellar GraphicDeep Cut85points
- Cellar spiderDeep Cut85points
- Celona HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Celsus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Cenepa manticoreDeep Cut85points
- Centipede snakeDeep Cut85points
- Central American AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Central American Boa ConstrictorDeep Cut85points
- Central American Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Central American Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Central American eyelash pitviperDeep Cut85points
- Central American GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Central American locustDeep Cut85points
- Central American milk frogDeep Cut85points
- Central American Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Central American Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Central American Rock-boring UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Central American Rufous Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Central American SeaslaterDeep Cut85points
- Central American Silky AnteaterDeep 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.