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
- Chirique-Flusse treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Chiriqui FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Chiriqui glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Chiriqui Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chiriquinan serotineDeep Cut85points
- Chirping Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chirripó glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Chisel toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Chivi VireoDeep Cut85points
- Chivita SnailDeep Cut85points
- Chloe Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ChlorophoniaDeep Cut85points
- ChlorospingusDeep Cut85points
- Choco BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Choco Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Choco ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Choco gobyDeep Cut85points
- Choco ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Choco Megaleas SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Chocó poison dart frogDeep Cut85points
- Choco PoorwillDeep Cut85points
- Choco Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Choco rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Choco SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Choco Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Choco SirystesDeep Cut85points
- Chocó stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Choco TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Choco TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Choco toadDeep Cut85points
- Choco toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Choco ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Choco TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Choco VireoDeep Cut85points
- Choco WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Choco WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Choco yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Choco's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan blunt-headed vine snakeDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan BushmasterDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan Forest PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan milk frogDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan Toad-headed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate Chip Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate Chip Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate ClamDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate zebra plecoDeep 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.