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
- Cloudy Andean FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cloudy Bubble SnailDeep Cut85points
- Cloudy PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Cloudy Snail-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Clown frogDeep Cut85points
- Clown plecoDeep Cut85points
- Clown wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Club coryDeep Cut85points
- Club-winged ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Clubbed golofaDeep Cut85points
- Clusia Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Clyde Jones's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Clymene DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Clysonymus LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Clytia PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- CnemoscopusDeep Cut85points
- Coal plecoDeep Cut85points
- Coal-crested FinchDeep Cut85points
- Coast coryDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Colorful Darkling BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Cordilleran Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Coastal DeguDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Ecuador smoky jungle frogDeep Cut85points
- Coastal House SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Coastal lowland snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Coastal MinerDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Mud ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Coastal rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Coastal snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Coastal TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Coastal tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- CoatiDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt chromisDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt-rumped ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt-winged ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Cobb's WrenDeep Cut85points
- Cobbler MothDeep Cut85points
- CobiaDeep Cut85points
- Cobija tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Cobweb spiderDeep Cut85points
- Coca white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Cocco's lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Cocha AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Cocha WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Cochabamba Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cochabamba Mountain FinchDeep Cut85points
- Cochabamba Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cochabamba SkipperlingDeep 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.