🐊Spectacled caiman
안경카이만(Spectacled caiman)은 앨리게이터과에 속하는 악어이다. 갈색, 녹색, 또는 황회색을 띠며, 눈 사이에 장관 같은 능선이 있는데, 그 흔한 이름의 유래이다. 길이는 1.4~2.5m, 무게는 7~40kg까지 자라며, 수컷이 암컷보다 길고 무겁다. 먹이는 계절에 따라 다른데, 게, 물고기, 작은 포유류, 양서류, 달팽이로 주로 구성된다. 번식은 5월에서 8월까지이며, 14~40개의 알을 7월과 8월에 낳는다. 이 악어는 분포 지역과 개체수가 넓고, 라틴아메리카의 많은 지역이 원산지이며, 미국, 쿠바, 푸에르토리코로 유입되었다.
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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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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓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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