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
- Crimson FruitcrowDeep Cut85points
- Crimson PatchDeep Cut85points
- Crimson ThreadtailDeep Cut85points
- Crimson TopazDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-bellied ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-bellied WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-breasted FinchDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-crested WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-fronted CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-hooded ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-mantled WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Crimson-rumped ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Crines HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Crinisus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cripplefin lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Crisia Mimic-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Crisp SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Crisppatch SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Crista FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Cristina's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Crithoe SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- CroakerDeep Cut85points
- Croaking Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Croaking tetraDeep Cut85points
- Crocodile sharkDeep Cut85points
- Crocodile TeguDeep Cut85points
- Croesus eyemarkDeep Cut85points
- Crolinus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Crombie’s dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Crooked Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Cropan's BoaDeep Cut85points
- Cross-barred WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Cross-hatched LucineDeep Cut85points
- Cross' WaveDeep Cut85points
- Crosshatch bassDeep Cut85points
- Crossthroat sawpalateDeep Cut85points
- Crown ConeDeep Cut85points
- Crown Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Crown-of-thorns starfishDeep Cut85points
- Crowned Broad-headed RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Crowned Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Crowned false boaDeep Cut85points
- Crowned HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Crowned sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Crowned Slaty FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Crowned WoodnymphDeep Cut85points
- Crubixa snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Crucifix sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Crump treefrogDeep 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.