🐊Spectacled caiman
メガネカイマン（Caiman crocodilus）は、アリゲーター科カイマン属に分類されるワニの一種。white caiman、 common caiman、speckled caimanなどの英名もある。英名や和名は目の間の眼鏡をかけたような隆起に由来する。体色は茶色、緑、黄灰色で、全長は1.4-2.5m、体重は7-40kgであり、雄の方が大型である。食性は季節によって変化するが、一般的にカニ、魚、小型哺乳類、両生類、貝を食べる。5-8月にかけて繁殖し、7-8月に14-40個の卵を産む。ラテンアメリカに広く分布し、アメリカ合衆国、キューバ、プエルトリコにも導入されている。分布域は広く、個体数も豊富である。
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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 ↑
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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
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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 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
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusCaiman
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