🐊Spectacled caiman
El caimán de anteojos (Caiman crocodilus), también conocido como cachirre, blanco, guagipal, babilla, tulicio o baba, es una especie de reptil carnívoro que habita los diferentes tipos de cursos de agua dulce, ciénagas y pantanos en el sur de México, Centroamérica y el noroeste de América del Sur. Fue introducido en Puerto Rico como mascota en los años 1960 y 1970, y actualmente se encuentra en todos los cuerpos de agua de la isla.[cita requerida] Los machos llegan a medir entre 1,8 y 2,5 m de largo, y las hembras 1,4 m. Se alimentan de diferentes especies de animales: crustáceos, peces, anfibios, reptiles, aves y mamíferos grandes y pequeños. El apareamiento ocurre en la estación lluviosa. La hembra hace el nido aglomerando pequeñas cantidades de vegetación seca y tierra y pone allí de 15 a 40 huevos. La incubación dura un promedio de 13 semanas. Al nacer, las crías miden unos 20 cm y son protegidas de forma agresiva por la hembra.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 11 kg
- Body length
- 2.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Spectacled caiman
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass11 kgrecord 73 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 length2.5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan40 yearsrecord 60 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation84 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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 l11 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 Spectacled caiman yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusCaiman
- ›speciesCaiman crocodilus
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusCaiman
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusCaiman
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