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

Colorful Moon SnailDeep Cut85points
Colorful PufflegDeep Cut85points
Colorful Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
Colossal FlasherDeep Cut85points
Colossal RoachDeep Cut85points
Columbia Black OysterDeep Cut85points
Columbus swordtailDeep Cut85points
Comb BittersweetDeep Cut85points
Comb DuckDeep Cut85points
Comb grouperDeep Cut85points
Comb jellyDeep Cut85points
Combtooth dogfishDeep Cut85points
CometDeep Cut85points
Comet SkipperDeep Cut85points
Cominate sea catfishDeep Cut85points
Commemorative microcaeciliaDeep Cut85points
Commensal Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
Commensal Parchment Worm CrabDeep Cut85points
Commensal sea urchin crabDeep Cut85points
Commerson's DolphinDeep Cut85points
Commerson's frogfishDeep Cut85points
Common AnastrusDeep Cut85points
Common Atlantic AbraDeep Cut85points
Common Atlantic BubbleDeep Cut85points
Common Atlantic grenadierDeep Cut85points
Common Ball WaterfleaDeep Cut85points
Common BannerDeep Cut85points
Common BasiliskDeep Cut85points
Common Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
Common big-eared batDeep Cut85points
Common big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
Common Big-headed FrogDeep Cut85points
Common big-jawed spiderDeep Cut85points
Common bilineate BlackheadDeep Cut85points
Common Black HawkDeep Cut85points
Common black mastiff batDeep Cut85points
Common black myotisDeep Cut85points
Common Blue-eyeDeep Cut85points
Common Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
Common Bluebloom TarantulaDeep Cut85points
Common Brown Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
Common Cactus FinchDeep Cut85points
Common Caribbean DonaxDeep Cut85points
Common Cerrado MouseDeep Cut85points
common cheese puff spongeDeep Cut85points
Common ChlorospingusDeep Cut85points
Common Crab-eating RatDeep Cut85points
Common curled hydroidDeep Cut85points
Common DeguDeep Cut85points
Common Diving-PetrelDeep 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.