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
- Condorir's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Condoto stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Cone snailDeep Cut85points
- Cone-billed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Cone-headed katydidDeep Cut85points
- Cone-web Curl-leaf SpiderDeep Cut85points
- ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Conehead TermiteDeep Cut85points
- ConeyDeep Cut85points
- Conflua SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Confluent Sigil Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Confusa TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Confused Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Confused MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Confused SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Confusing FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Confusing rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Confusing SkipperDeep Cut85points
- CongerDeep Cut85points
- Congo sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Connecticut WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Connexa SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Conservation landfrogDeep Cut85points
- Conspicuous OmmatolampisDeep Cut85points
- Constanze's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- ConstellationfishDeep Cut85points
- Constricted MacomaDeep Cut85points
- Contracted Cowry HelmetDeep Cut85points
- Contracted SemeleDeep Cut85points
- Contreras' Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Contreras's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Contulmo ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Convict CaterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Convict surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Cooco Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cook's HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Cook's PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Cookie cutter sharkDeep Cut85points
- Cookie StarDeep Cut85points
- Cooper's HawkDeep Cut85points
- Coopmans's ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Coopmans's tyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- CootDeep Cut85points
- Cope's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Cope's Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Cope's brown treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cope's eastern Paraguay treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cope's MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Cope's Parrot SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Cope’s swamp frogDeep 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.