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American Alligator🦎

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SpeciesAlligatoridae
Reptiles

🦎American alligator

Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801)

القاطور أو القاطور الأمريكي (الاسم العلمي: Alligator mississippiensis) يوجد القاطور الأمريكي في الجنوب الشرقي للولايات المتحدة من الشرق شمال كاليفورنيا إلى جنوب فلوريدا ومن غرب إلى شمال تكساس إلى شمال وجنوب اركانسس وشرق اكلاهوما ويستطيع أن يعيش في المناطق الباردة أكثر من أي تمساح آخر فلذلك من الممكن ان يتواجدفي المناطق الشمالية.

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vs you
≈ 2.4× your weight
Also called
Mississippi Alligator
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
150 kg
Body length
4.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
77 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American alligator

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
150 kgrecord 62 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
Other figures ↓

data quality: high

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

By sex

  • Female0.13 kgSeaLifeBasev25.04SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.
Body length
4.6 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Other figures ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female3.1 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

Figures vary

  • 4.27 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
77 yearsrecord 85 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: high

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Carnivorous
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
Mixed
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
Details ↓

Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
SeaLifeBase
Details ↓

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
150 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American alligator yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classCrocodylia
  4. ›familyAlligatoridae
  5. ›genusAlligator
  6. ›speciesAlligator mississippiensis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. familyAlligatoridae
  3. subfamilyAlligatorinae
  4. genusAlligator
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. familyAlligatoridae
  10. subfamilyAlligatorinae
  11. genusAlligator
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In other languages
aligator amerykański (pl), 미시시피악어 (ko), אליגטור אמריקני (he), Alligator d'Amérique (fr), Alligator mississippiensis (es), mississippi aligátor (hu) … and 26 more languages

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