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
- Collared blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Collared BuccinumDeep Cut85points
- Collared CrescentchestDeep Cut85points
- Collared eelDeep Cut85points
- Collared Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Collared GnatwrenDeep Cut85points
- Collared Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Collared IncaDeep Cut85points
- Collared PeccaryDeep Cut85points
- Collared PloverDeep Cut85points
- Collared PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Collared Sand AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Collared TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Collared Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Collared Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Collins' poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Collins's Squirrel MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Coln rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Coloma’s glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Coloma's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian backpack frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Colombian big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Colombian black myotisDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Black TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian blennyDeep Cut85points
- Colombian blue-eyed anoleDeep Cut85points
- Colombian brown tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Cane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Central Andes Cloud Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Colombian CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Colombian CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Colombian dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Dusky-brown TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian dwarf numbfishDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Dwarf Tiger TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Earth SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Egg FrogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Frog-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Funnel Web SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Colombian giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Giant Redleg TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian giant toadDeep 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.