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
- Chocolate-colored catfishDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate-lined top shellDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate-vented TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Chocolatefoot leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Choelo halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Choicy ruffDeep Cut85points
- Chola guitarfishDeep Cut85points
- Cholga musselDeep Cut85points
- Chomsky's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chop stick coryDeep Cut85points
- Chopi BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chotoy SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Tree HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Tree Hydroid NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Christmas tree wormDeep Cut85points
- Chrysites BannerDeep Cut85points
- Chrysophrys SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ChubDeep Cut85points
- Chub mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Chubby pearleyeDeep Cut85points
- Chucao TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Chuchuvia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Chuck-will's-widowDeep Cut85points
- Chucuri geckoDeep Cut85points
- Chullachaki beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Chupada rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Chupada swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Chupare stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Churuguara collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Churuwia's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Chusmisa Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Chusquea TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Chutes-and-ladders HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Cilida toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Cilissa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Cinderella cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Cinderella Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Cindy's LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous BecardDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous FinchDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous HarrierDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous MournerDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Cinereous Warbling 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.