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
- Curaçao WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Curator brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Curicen Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Curious SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Curipe ToothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Curitiba FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Curl-crested AracariDeep Cut85points
- Curl-crested JayDeep Cut85points
- CurlewDeep Cut85points
- Cursorial Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Curuá Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Curuá Toad PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Curua Zebra PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Curumim tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Curupi treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Cururu stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Curve-billed ReedhaunterDeep Cut85points
- Curve-billed ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Curve-billed TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Curve-lined CydosiaDeep Cut85points
- Curve-lined TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Curve-winged MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Curved sweeperDeep Cut85points
- Curved-lined Homostinea MothDeep Cut85points
- Curvirostris tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Cusco Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cusco gladiator tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Cusco HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Cusco Tegu LizardDeep Cut85points
- Cusco triangular-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Cut-Ribbed ArkDeep Cut85points
- Cute plecoDeep Cut85points
- CutlassfishDeep Cut85points
- CutwormDeep Cut85points
- Cuvier's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Cuvier's dwarf caimanDeep Cut85points
- Cuvier's PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Cuvier's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Cuyaba dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Cuyuja Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cuzco BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Cuzco Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Cuzco FrogDeep Cut85points
- Cuzco robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Cuzco WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Cyan EmperorDeep Cut85points
- Cyan Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- CycadianDeep 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.