🦎American alligator
Amerikansk alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) er den ene af de to nulevende arter i slægten Alligator.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- 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
Everything we know about the American alligator
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass150 kgrecord 62 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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 length4.6 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female3.1 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 4.27 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan77 yearsrecord 85 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeMixedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humanstraumatogenicSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l150 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusAlligator
- ›speciesAlligator mississippiensis
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyAlligatorinae
- genusAlligator
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyAlligatorinae
- genusAlligator
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