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
- Cinereous-breasted SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon BecardDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon Manakin-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon red batDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon TealDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-bellied Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-breasted Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-colored Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-crested SpadebillDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-faced TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-throated HermitDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-throated WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-vented PihaDeep Cut85points
- Cipo CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Circle-marked Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Circled Bumblebee ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Circular Chinese-hatDeep Cut85points
- Circumducta SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Cisneros's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Citrine forktailDeep Cut85points
- Citrine gobyDeep Cut85points
- Citrine WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Citron SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Citron-bellied AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Citron-headed Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Citron-throated ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Citrus fruitpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Citrus OrtheziaDeep Cut85points
- Clam WormDeep Cut85points
- Clara’s SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Claret PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Clark's Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Clark's Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Clark's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Claudina CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Clavipes SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Clay Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Clay Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Clay-colored ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Clean Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Cleaner gobyDeep 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.