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
- Cope's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Cope's Vine SnakeDeep Cut85points
- CopepodDeep Cut85points
- Copper JoeDeep Cut85points
- Copper LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Copper Metallic Tree SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Copper Parrot SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Copper plecDeep Cut85points
- Copper SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Copper sharkDeep Cut85points
- Copper tetraDeep Cut85points
- Copper Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Copper-colored thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Copper-rumped HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Copper-tailed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Coppery EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Coppery MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Coppery ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Coppery TitiDeep Cut85points
- Coppery-bellied PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Coppery-chested JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Coppinger's spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- CoquetteDeep Cut85points
- Coquito sergeantDeep Cut85points
- Coral Clinging CrabDeep Cut85points
- Coral FiretailDeep Cut85points
- Coral Gall CrabDeep Cut85points
- Coral hawkfishDeep Cut85points
- Coral red pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Coral scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Coral Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- CoralbrotulaDeep Cut85points
- Coralliform catadysisDeep Cut85points
- CorallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Coraya WrenDeep Cut85points
- Corbulo SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Corcovado treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cord arm starDeep Cut85points
- Cordeiro's Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Azul AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Azul giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Central treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Colan marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Occidental rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Cordilleran CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Cordilleran ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Cordoba CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Córdoba livebearerDeep 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.