🐊American crocodile
El cocodrilo americano, también conocido como lagarto real, lagarto amarillo o cocodrilo de río, asimismo como cocodrilo narigudo, cocodrilo aguja, cocodrilo de la costa (Ecuador), caimán de la costa (Venezuela), caimán aguja (Colombia) o cocodrilo de Tumbes (Perú) (Crocodylus acutus), pertenece a la familia de Crocodylidae. Se le suele confundir con aligátores (Alligator) con los cuales está poco emparentado, estos últimos son más próximos a los caimanes, como el yacaré overo (Caiman latirostris). La diferencia física entre ambos grupos es importante, lo que permite identificarlos sin problema.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 77 kg
- Body length
- 6.1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 47 years
Everything we know about the American crocodile
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass77 kgrecord 540 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length6.1 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan47 yearsrecord 100 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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 cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length3.8 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.
By sex
- Female3.8 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l77 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 crocodile yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyCrocodylidae
- ›genusCrocodylus
- ›speciesCrocodylus acutus
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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