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
- Cotopaxi Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cotopaxi rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cotton ratDeep Cut85points
- Cotton Spotted PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Cotton-top TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Cottonmouth jackDeep Cut85points
- Cottonwick gruntDeep Cut85points
- Cotuero toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Cotundo SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Coues's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Coues's Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Couma sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Country Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Cox's StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- CoypuDeep Cut85points
- Cozumelan golden batDeep Cut85points
- Crab spiderDeep Cut85points
- Crab-eating FoxDeep Cut85points
- Crab-eating RaccoonDeep Cut85points
- Crab-eating ratDeep Cut85points
- Crab's Claw SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cracker butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Crafty Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Crafty morayDeep Cut85points
- Crafty Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Crag ChiliaDeep Cut85points
- CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Cramer's MeseneDeep Cut85points
- Cramer's RingletDeep Cut85points
- Cramer's SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Cramer’s Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cramer's SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Cramer's SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Crampton's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Crane HawkDeep Cut85points
- Cranwell's Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cranwell's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Crassus SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Crazy antDeep Cut85points
- Creaky DartDeep Cut85points
- Cream-backed WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Cream-colored Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Cream-colored WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Cream-spotted TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Cream-winged CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Creamy SisterDeep Cut85points
- Creamy-bellied AntwrenDeep 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.