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
- Córdoba tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Córdoba Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Córdoba Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Corilla Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Corinna DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Corkscrew AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Corky Sea FingerDeep Cut85points
- Corn earwormDeep Cut85points
- Corn LeafhopperDeep Cut85points
- CornetfishDeep Cut85points
- CoroatáDeep Cut85points
- Corocoro gruntDeep Cut85points
- CoronetDeep Cut85points
- Corope SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Córrego Grande big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Córrego toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Correndera PipitDeep Cut85points
- CorronchoDeep Cut85points
- Corrugate JewelboxDeep Cut85points
- Corrugate SolecurtusDeep Cut85points
- Corrugated CoralDeep Cut85points
- Corsiana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cortez angelfishDeep Cut85points
- Cortez Barrel ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Cortez rainbow wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Cortez sea chubDeep Cut85points
- Corumba cichlidDeep Cut85points
- CoruroDeep Cut85points
- Corusca SkipperDeep Cut85points
- CorvinaDeep Cut85points
- Corvina drumDeep Cut85points
- Cory's ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- CorydorasDeep Cut85points
- Cosa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Coscoroba SwanDeep Cut85points
- Cosinga FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Cosmopolitan celleporellaDeep Cut85points
- CospaDeep Cut85points
- Cossea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican green tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican Hoary-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Costa-spotted BeautymarkDeep Cut85points
- Costa-spotted Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Costala SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Costate LucineDeep Cut85points
- Cosyra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- CotiaraDeep Cut85points
- CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Cotinga River Toadhead TurtleDeep 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.