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🦎Hellbender
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis est une espèce d'urodèles de la famille des Cryptobranchidae. Elle est appelée Ménopome ou Salamandre-alligator en français.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0.36 kg
- Body length
- 0.74 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 29 years
Everything we know about the Hellbender
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.36 kgAnAgeOther figures ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Figures vary
- 0.36 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length0.74 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan29 yearsrecord 30 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation72 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 275AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Dietarthropods, vertebratesAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l0.4 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 Hellbender yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderCaudata
- ›familyCryptobranchidae
- ›genusCryptobranchus
- ›speciesCryptobranchus alleganiensis
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- familyCryptobranchidae
- genusCryptobranchus
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- superfamilyCryptobranchoidea
- familyCryptobranchidae
- genusCryptobranchus
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