🐊Cuvier's dwarf caiman
난쟁이카이만(Dwarf caiman)은 남아메리카 북부와 중부 출신의 앨리게이터과에 속하는 작은 악어이다. 브라질, 볼리비아, 콜롬비아, 에콰도르, 프랑스령 기아나, 가이아나, 파라과이, 페루, 수리남, 트리니다드 토바고 그리고 베네수엘라에서 발견된다. 강가의 숲, 호수 근처의 범람한 숲, 그리고 빠르게 흐르는 강과 개울 근처에서 살고, 건조한 땅을 가로질러 임시 웅덩이에 도달할 수 있고 다른 종의 카이만보다 더 차가운 물을 견딜 수 있다. 이 종의 다른 일반적인 이름으로는 사향카이만(Musky caiman), 퀴비에난쟁이카이만(Cuvier's dwarf caiman), 퀴비에카이만(Cuvier's caiman)이 있다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 5.9 kg
- Body length
- 1.4 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.9 kgrecord 20 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 length1.4 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 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
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 l5.9 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 Cuvier's dwarf caiman yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusPaleosuchus
- ›speciesPaleosuchus palpebrosus
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusPaleosuchus
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyCaimaninae
- genusPaleosuchus
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