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
- Cruz Lima's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Cruz Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cruz's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Crying coryDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic BecardDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic golden teguDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic RacerunnerDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic RemellaDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic Spectacled TeguDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic Teardrop CrabDeep Cut85points
- Cryptic torrenteerDeep Cut85points
- Crystal Comb JellyDeep Cut85points
- Crystal Red TetraDeep Cut85points
- Crystal-banded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Cuban anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Cuban dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Cuban MartinDeep Cut85points
- Cuban SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Cuban Stone CrabDeep Cut85points
- CubbyuDeep Cut85points
- Cubera snapperDeep Cut85points
- Cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Cuckoo waspDeep Cut85points
- Cucullina SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Cuddly coryDeep Cut85points
- Cuenca marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Cuenca Nelson FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cueva del Fantasma rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Cuilanes of HillisDeep Cut85points
- Cuiva PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- CulpeoDeep Cut85points
- Cuming's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cundinamarca AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Cundinamarca Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cundinamarca toadDeep Cut85points
- Cunha's Brazilian LizardDeep Cut85points
- Cunningham's triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Cupavia SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Cupentus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Cuphead skateDeep Cut85points
- Curaçao black widowDeep Cut85points
- Curaçao jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Curaçao myotisDeep Cut85points
- Curacao Striped AnoleDeep 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.