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 Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Chilean rose tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean roughyDeep Cut85points
- Chilean round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Chilean sandpaperfishDeep Cut85points
- Chilean sandperchDeep Cut85points
- Chilean scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Chilean sea pansyDeep Cut85points
- Chilean shore crabDeep Cut85points
- Chilean silversideDeep Cut85points
- Chilean SkuaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Chilean stick insectDeep Cut85points
- Chilean SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Tiger SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Chilean TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Chilean torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Chilean tritonDeep Cut85points
- Chilean WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Chilean WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Chilean worm eelDeep Cut85points
- Chilean Zale MothDeep Cut85points
- Chilhuil sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Chili sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Chili Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chiloé Island ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Chiloe WigeonDeep Cut85points
- Chiloe's hippoporinaDeep Cut85points
- ChimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Chimango CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Chimantá poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Chimantá tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Chimbo FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chimbo rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Chimera's bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Chimney SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Chimu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- China-mark MothDeep Cut85points
- Chinchao whorltail lizardDeep Cut85points
- Chinchilla ratDeep Cut85points
- Chinchipe SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Chinese handcuffsDeep Cut85points
- Chinese trumpetfishDeep Cut85points
- Chiomara SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Chiria SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Chiribaya's bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Chiribiquete EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Chiribiquete sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Chiriboga Robber FrogDeep 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.