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

Kroyer's dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
Kubrick's tree frogDeep Cut85points
Kugler's Largescale LizardDeep Cut85points
Kukenan bush toadDeep Cut85points
Kukwari sea catfishDeep Cut85points
Kulina Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
Kulinas' Mustached TamarinDeep Cut85points
Kunam RainfrogDeep Cut85points
KunapariDeep Cut85points
Kuri Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
Kurintza tree frogDeep Cut85points
Kutukú Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Kwet’s nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
La Arboleda stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
La Blanquilla AnoleDeep Cut85points
La Blanquilla Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
La Bonita CaecilianDeep Cut85points
La Brea poison frogDeep Cut85points
La Carbonera stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
La Chorrera Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
La Costa rocket frogDeep Cut85points
La Culata rocket frogDeep Cut85points
La Culata's Paramo FrogDeep Cut85points
La Delicia Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Escalera carrying frogDeep Cut85points
La Escalera rocket frogDeep Cut85points
La Escalera treefrogDeep Cut85points
La Granja whorltail lizardDeep Cut85points
La Guitarra stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
La Hondura Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Loma CaecilianDeep Cut85points
La Loma Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Loma treefrogDeep Cut85points
La Marca's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Mica rocket frogDeep Cut85points
La Mucuy SalamanderDeep Cut85points
La Palma Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Parva spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
La Paz Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Pedrera Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
La Planada poison frogDeep Cut85points
La Planada Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
La Plata anemoneDeep Cut85points
La Plata croakerDeep Cut85points
La Plata plecoDeep Cut85points
La Plata skateDeep Cut85points
La Rioja Water FrogDeep Cut85points
La Tortuga WhiptailDeep Cut85points
Labe SatyrDeep Cut85points
Labiated RainfrogDeep 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.