🐊Indus Crocodile
El cocodrilo de las marismas (Crocodylus palustris), también llamado cocodrilo iraní, hocicudo, hindú o persa (en Persa گاندو Gandu), es una especie de cocodrílidos que se localiza por todo el subcontinente indio y las fronteras de los países vecinos (Pakistán, Sri Lanka, etc.). En las regiones costeras de Pakistán, por el Makrán y las marismas del delta del Sindh se le conoce como cocodrilo hindú, ya que existe en varias zonas de Bangladés, y partes de Nepal e Irán. En inglés recibe el nombre de Mugger Crocodile. La palabra "mugger" es una transformación de la palabra Hindi/Urdu "magar", que significa monstruo acuático. Y esta, a su vez, deriva de "makara", la palabra usada para referirse a un cocodrilo en sánscrito.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 43 kg
- Body length
- 5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 44 years
Everything we know about the Indus Crocodile
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass43 kgrecord 450 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan44 yearsrecord 40 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l43 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 Indus Crocodile yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyCrocodylidae
- ›genusCrocodylus
- ›speciesCrocodylus palustris
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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