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
- Checker-throated StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- CheckerbellyDeep Cut85points
- Checkerboard cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Checkered Apogeshna MothDeep Cut85points
- Checkered blennyDeep Cut85points
- Checkered NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Checkered pufferDeep Cut85points
- Checkered WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Chemnitz's ark clamDeep Cut85points
- Chere-chere gruntDeep Cut85points
- Cherra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cherrie's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Cherry JewelboxDeep Cut85points
- Cherry-spot MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Cherry-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- CherubfishDeep Cut85points
- Chessboard blennyDeep Cut85points
- Chessboard catfishDeep Cut85points
- Chessboard cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut morayDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut NassaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut short-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut toniciaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut TurbanDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-backed AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-backed ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-banded WaveDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied GuanDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied Seed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-bellied TitiDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-belted GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-breasted ChlorophoniaDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-breasted CoronetDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut-breasted Mountain FinchDeep 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.