🐊Black caiman
El caimán negro o jacaré negro (Melanosuchus niger) es un saurópsido aligatórido, siendo la única especie de su género viva. Presenta un característico color negro y habita en la Amazonía. Llegan a medir 6 m, por lo que pueden devorar animales como venados o capibaras, e incluso tapires y otros mamíferos de gran tamaño.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 82 kg
- Body length
- 6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Black caiman
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass82 kgrecord 883 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 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan40 yearsrecord 40 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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Volume l82 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 Black caiman yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusMelanosuchus
- ›speciesMelanosuchus niger
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusMelanosuchus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusMelanosuchus
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