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 Root LizardDeep Cut85points
Common SalpDeep Cut85points
Common Scale-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
Common Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
Common sea daisyDeep Cut85points
Common Sea SkaterDeep Cut85points
Common seabird tickDeep Cut85points
Common searobinDeep Cut85points
Common shaggy batDeep Cut85points
Common Sieve Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
Common Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
Common snookDeep Cut85points
Common snouted frogDeep Cut85points
Common soft coralDeep Cut85points
Common Spotted Night SnakeDeep Cut85points
Common SpurwingDeep Cut85points
Common Stream LizardDeep Cut85points
Common SundialDeep Cut85points
Common sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
Common Tan WaveDeep Cut85points
Common TapetiDeep Cut85points
Common tent-making batDeep Cut85points
Common TernDeep Cut85points
Common ThestiusDeep Cut85points
Common thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
Common thresherDeep Cut85points
Common Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
Common vampire batDeep Cut85points
Common Venezuelan water teiidDeep Cut85points
Common Viscacha RatDeep Cut85points
Common Water FleaDeep Cut85points
Common Water RatDeep Cut85points
Common West Indian BubbleDeep Cut85points
Common Whiptail CatfishDeep Cut85points
Common White TatochilaDeep Cut85points
Common Woolly MonkeyDeep Cut85points
Common YellowthroatDeep Cut85points
Compact Carpenter AntDeep Cut85points
Compass Sea SquirtDeep Cut85points
Complanula SkipperDeep Cut85points
Compliant SkipperDeep Cut85points
Concave-nosed Striped-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
Concepcion toadDeep Cut85points
ConchfishDeep Cut85points
Conda SkipperDeep Cut85points
Condor cuilanesDeep Cut85points
Cóndor poison frogDeep Cut85points
Condor Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
Condor Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
Cóndor stream 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.