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
- Creamy-bellied GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Creamy-bellied ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Creamy-breasted CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Creamy-crested SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Creamy-rumped MinerDeep Cut85points
- Creek livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Creek tetraDeep Cut85points
- Creighton's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Creole ConeDeep Cut85points
- Creole perchDeep Cut85points
- Creole wrasseDeep Cut85points
- CreolefishDeep Cut85points
- Creona FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Crescent (butterfly)Deep Cut85points
- Crescent-chested PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Crescent-faced AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- CrescentchestDeep Cut85points
- Cresson's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Crested Ant TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Crested BecardDeep Cut85points
- Crested bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Crested Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Crested blennyDeep Cut85points
- Crested BobwhiteDeep Cut85points
- Crested CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Crested CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Crested DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- Crested DuckDeep Cut85points
- Crested EagleDeep Cut85points
- Crested GallitoDeep Cut85points
- Crested gobyDeep Cut85points
- Crested GuanDeep Cut85points
- Crested HorneroDeep Cut85points
- Crested oarfishDeep Cut85points
- Crested OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Crested OwlDeep Cut85points
- Crested penguinDeep Cut85points
- Crested pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Crested QuetzalDeep Cut85points
- Crested scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Crested SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Crested spiny plunderfishDeep Cut85points
- Crested tinamouDeep Cut85points
- Crestless CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Cretatus FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Crethon DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Creusae FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Creutzberg's SpurillaDeep Cut85points
- Crevalle jackDeep Cut85points
- Crevice Brittle StarDeep 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.