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
- Chameleon tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Chameleon wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Chami AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- ChanchitaDeep Cut85points
- ChangaDeep Cut85points
- Changallo shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Changeable ArkDeep Cut85points
- Changos OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Channel bull blennyDeep Cut85points
- Channel flounderDeep Cut85points
- Channel Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Channel scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Channel-billed ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Channeled Apple SnailDeep Cut85points
- Channeled Duck ClamDeep Cut85points
- Channeled rockfishDeep Cut85points
- channeled turbanDeep Cut85points
- Chao's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Chapada Diamantina tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Chapada Diamantina white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Chapada dos Veadeiros snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Chapada dos Veadeiros tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Chapada FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Chapman's AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Chapman's blennyDeep Cut85points
- Chapman's Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Chapman's skateDeep Cut85points
- Chapman's SwiftDeep Cut85points
- CharacinDeep Cut85points
- Charapita glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Charazani tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal moraDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Charichlorus GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Charlotteville Leaf-litter FrogDeep Cut85points
- Charm AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Charming Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Charru MusselDeep Cut85points
- Charta treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Chartreuse DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Charuplaya treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Charybdis FiretipDeep Cut85points
- ChaserDeep Cut85points
- Chat (bird)Deep Cut85points
- Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Chatham AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Chatham Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Chattering GnatwrenDeep Cut85points
- Chaves' lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Chechehet's Tuco-tucoDeep 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.