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

Common DolphinDeep Cut85points
Common dwarf bonneted batDeep Cut85points
Common Egg CockleDeep Cut85points
Common encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
Common fangtoothDeep Cut85points
Common Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
Common Fjord Sea StarDeep Cut85points
Common Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
Common fringe-lipped batDeep Cut85points
Common GallinuleDeep Cut85points
Common Green LacewingDeep Cut85points
Common Green LeafhopperDeep Cut85points
Common Green RacerDeep Cut85points
Common Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
Common GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
Common Hairy Triton SnailDeep Cut85points
Common halfbeakDeep Cut85points
Common HydraDeep Cut85points
Common JingleDeep Cut85points
Common LanceheadDeep Cut85points
Common Largescale LizardDeep Cut85points
Common Light-striated Sea StarDeep Cut85points
Common Mangrove BuckeyeDeep Cut85points
Common Mantis ShrimpDeep Cut85points
Common MarmosetDeep Cut85points
Common MellanaDeep Cut85points
Common MelwhiteDeep Cut85points
Common MinerDeep Cut85points
Common minke whaleDeep Cut85points
Common Moon JellyDeep Cut85points
Common moraDeep Cut85points
Common MorphoDeep Cut85points
Common Mountain ViscachaDeep Cut85points
Common MylonDeep Cut85points
Common NighthawkDeep Cut85points
Common NutmegDeep Cut85points
Common OctopusDeep Cut85points
Common OlivewingDeep Cut85points
Common Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
Common PauraqueDeep Cut85points
Common Peanut WormDeep Cut85points
Common PericoteDeep Cut85points
Common Peru blind snakeDeep Cut85points
Common Plains ViscachaDeep Cut85points
Common PotooDeep Cut85points
Common red BlackheadDeep Cut85points
Common Red-nosed MouseDeep Cut85points
Common Red-rumped AgoutiDeep Cut85points
Common Rice OliveDeep Cut85points
Common rocket frogDeep 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.