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SpeciesAlligatoridae
Reptiles

🐊Black caiman

Melanosuchus niger (Spix, 1825)

الكيمن الأسود هو أكبر حيوان مفترس في النظام البيئي لمنطقة الأمازون، حيث يتغذى على مجموعة متنوعة من الأسماك والزواحف والطيور والثدييات. يتميز هذا الحيوان بجلد غامق اللون. الذي يساعده على التمويه أثناء عمليات الصيد الليلية، كما يمكن أن يساعده أيضًا على امتصاص الحرارة (انظر التنظيم الحراري). يتمتع الكمين الأسود بفك سفلي يتميز بوجود طوقا رمادي اللون (بني في الحيوانات الأكبر سنا)، وشريط أصفر أو أبيض شاحب موجودان على جانبي الجسم.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
82 kg
Body length
6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black caiman

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

Body mass
82 kgrecord 883 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Body length
6 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
40 yearsrecord 40 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

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

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

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

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
82 Laverage
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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 Black caiman yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classCrocodylia
  4. ›familyAlligatoridae
  5. ›genusMelanosuchus
  6. ›speciesMelanosuchus niger
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. familyAlligatoridae
  3. subfamilyCaimaninae
  4. genusMelanosuchus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. familyAlligatoridae
  10. subfamilyCaimaninae
  11. genusMelanosuchus
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In other languages
Melanosuchus niger (es), caïman noir (fr), Kajman czarny (pl), קיימן שחור אמאזוני (he), fekete kajmán (hu), Melanosuchus niger (it) … and 21 more languages
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Jacaré Açú10 09 2021 Visita ao parque zoobotânico do Museu Emílio Goeldi (51445181304)Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger) (Captive specimen) (38731128190)
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