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
- Central American SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Central American Snout-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Central American SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Central American TapirDeep Cut85points
- Central American Tree SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Central Andean Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Central Andes Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Central Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Central Chilean ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Central coast stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Central dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Central Hook PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Central Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Central Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Central SipoDeep Cut85points
- Centrites SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cephoides SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cerata GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ceraunus BlueDeep Cut85points
- Cerberus GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Cerca de Tingo rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- CeroDeep Cut85points
- Ceromia GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ceron's Green Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ceros TetraDeep Cut85points
- Cerqueira's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Cerqueira's Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado Naked-tailed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado Red-nosed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado toadDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerrado tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Aracamuni emerald-barred frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro illescas GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Jaua rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Mali beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Munchique marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Munchique Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Plateado leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Santa Rosa rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Sipapo rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerro Tacarcuna rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cerulean Cuckoo-Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cerulean DancerDeep Cut85points
- Cerulean Stingless BeeDeep 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.