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
- Cleaner shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Cleanthes SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Clear-finned dragonfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Clear-tipped AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Clearsnout grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Clearspot BluewingDeep Cut85points
- Clearspot flounderDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing Lichen CicadaDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing Mimic-QueenDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing mothDeep Cut85points
- Clearwing satyrDeep Cut85points
- Cleber's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Clementina toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Clench's LasaiaDeep Cut85points
- Clench's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cleon MinistreakDeep Cut85points
- Cleonus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Clery's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Click beetleDeep Cut85points
- Clidemia LeafrollerDeep Cut85points
- Cliff FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Cliff ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Climber lizardDeep Cut85points
- Climbing catfishDeep Cut85points
- Climbing mouseDeep Cut85points
- Climbing ratDeep Cut85points
- Climbing salamanderDeep Cut85points
- ClingfishDeep Cut85points
- Clinias SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Clio CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Clonia MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Clothilda EmperorDeep Cut85points
- Cloud Forest Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cloud forest rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Cloud Forest Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cloud forest rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cloud Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-forest BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-forest CatoneDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-forest Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-forest Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-loving RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-spotted MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Clouded OncillaDeep Cut85points
- Clouded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Clouded YellowDeep Cut85points
- Cloudforest CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Cloudless SulphurDeep 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.