🐊False gharial
Tomistoma schlegelii, unique représentant du genre Tomistoma, est une espèce de crocodiliens de la famille des Gavialidae. En français cette espèce est appelée faux-gavial de Malaisie ou gavial de Schlegel. Elle doit son nom à sa ressemblance avec le gavial du Gange, espèce appartenant à la famille des Gavialidae. Le faux-gavial en a été exclu pour rejoindre la famille des Crocodylidae, avant que des analyses génétiques ne le replacent dans sa famille originelle. Bien que le faux-gavial ne fasse pas partie du genre Gavialis de la sous-famille des Gavialinae, mais de la sous-famille à part des Tomistominae et du genre à part Tomistoma, son retour dans les Gavialidae fait de lui un vrai gavial, malgré son nom vernaculaire, inchangé.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- 119 kg
- Body length
- 5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the False gharial
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass119 kgrecord 590 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 length5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsrecord 80 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation102 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l119 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 False gharial yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyCrocodylidae
- ›genusTomistoma
- ›speciesTomistoma schlegelii
- orderSauria
- familyGavialidae
- subfamilyTomistominae
- genusTomistoma
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyGavialidae
- subfamilyTomistominae
- genusTomistoma
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