Name an animal that is native to South America - Krillion Answers 2026-11-01

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

Dusky ChlorospingusDeep Cut85points
Dusky cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
Dusky damselfishDeep Cut85points
Dusky DancerDeep Cut85points
Dusky DolphinDeep Cut85points
Dusky finless skateDeep Cut85points
Dusky flounderDeep Cut85points
Dusky GroundlingDeep Cut85points
Dusky grouperDeep Cut85points
Dusky Herpetogramma MothDeep Cut85points
Dusky Hover FlyDeep Cut85points
Dusky jawfishDeep Cut85points
Dusky lanternfishDeep Cut85points
Dusky millions fishDeep Cut85points
Dusky Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
Dusky panaqueDeep Cut85points
Dusky ParrotDeep Cut85points
Dusky PigeonDeep Cut85points
Dusky PihaDeep Cut85points
Dusky PurpletuftDeep Cut85points
Dusky Raisin MothDeep Cut85points
Dusky Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Dusky Sap BeetleDeep Cut85points
Dusky sergeantDeep Cut85points
Dusky sharkDeep Cut85points
Dusky Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
Dusky Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
Dusky smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
Dusky snake eelDeep Cut85points
Dusky SpinetailDeep Cut85points
Dusky squirrelfishDeep Cut85points
Dusky StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
Dusky TapaculoDeep Cut85points
Dusky-backed JacamarDeep Cut85points
Dusky-billed ParrotletDeep Cut85points
Dusky-blue GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
Dusky-capped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
Dusky-capped GreenletDeep Cut85points
Dusky-capped WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
Dusky-chested FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
Dusky-faced TanagerDeep Cut85points
Dusky-green OropendolaDeep Cut85points
Dusky-headed BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
Dusky-headed ParakeetDeep Cut85points
Dusky-legged GuanDeep Cut85points
Dusky-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
Dusky-tailed CanasteroDeep Cut85points
Dusky-tailed FlatbillDeep Cut85points
Dusky-throated AntshrikeDeep 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.