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
- Colombian gobyDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Colombian lesserblack tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Colombian longtail snakeDeep Cut85points
- Colombian MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Mountain GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Niputidea nurse frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Colombian pinkbloom tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian plump frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian PurplebloomDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Rainbow BoaDeep Cut85points
- Colombian RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Red HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Colombian RingtailDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Rufous Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Colombian SailorDeep Cut85points
- Colombian sand eelDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Shark CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Colombian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Colombian SliderDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Speckled Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Colombian stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Colombian swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Colombian TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Colombian tetraDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Toad-headed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Colombian VinegaroonDeep Cut85points
- Colombian WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Western Andes Cloud Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Wood TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Colombian Worm SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Colon gobyDeep Cut85points
- Colón RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Colonia Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Colonial Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Colorado dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Colorado snapperDeep Cut85points
- Colorful AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Colorful Hermit CrabDeep 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.