🐊Cuvier's dwarf caiman
El caimán de Cuvier (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), también llamado yacaré itá, yacaré enano, caimán enano o babo morichalero, es una especie de pequeño caimán sudamericano presente en varios países: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela. Los machos alcanzan 1,6 metros de longitud en su edad adulta y las hembras 1,2 metros Son la especie de cocodrilo más pequeña del mundo. Es una de las especies del orden crocodilia menos amenazada cuyas poblaciones se mantienen estables. Por lo general este tipo de caimán muestra preferencia por cursos de agua con corriente y más aún por aquellos donde la vegetación provea de sombra. En estos lugares las hembras colocan sus nidos, fabricados por ellas son hechos de hojas secas. La puesta usual consta de 5 a 9 huevos.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 5.9 kg
- Body length
- 1.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.9 kgrecord 20 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 length1.4 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan24 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
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.9 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 Cuvier's dwarf caiman yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusPaleosuchus
- ›speciesPaleosuchus palpebrosus
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusPaleosuchus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusPaleosuchus
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