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
- Chilean abaloneDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Anemone Porcelain CrabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean angelsharkDeep Cut85points
- Chilean AstataDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Austral-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Banded-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Basket StarDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Bat StarDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Beautiful TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Black SnailDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Blue MusselDeep Cut85points
- Chilean breadcrumb spongeDeep Cut85points
- Chilean ChinchillaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Chilean CopperDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Copper LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Chilean CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Chilean crabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Chilean eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Chilean ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean false monitorDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Field CricketDeep Cut85points
- Chilean FlamingoDeep Cut85points
- Chilean flat spiderDeep Cut85points
- Chilean FlickerDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Chilean grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Hairy ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Chilean HawkDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean jack mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Kelp CrabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean LadyDeep Cut85points
- Chilean lampreyDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Chilean magnificent beetleDeep Cut85points
- Chilean marked geckoDeep Cut85points
- Chilean MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Mole CrabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Mud Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Chilean myotisDeep Cut85points
- Chilean nylon shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Ocelot TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean oysterDeep Cut85points
- Chilean petaltailDeep Cut85points
- Chilean PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Chilean pink snailDeep Cut85points
- Chilean recluse spiderDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Redback SpiderDeep 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.