Adult hellbender in the wild in New York. (5161452281)

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SpeciesCaudataCryptobranchidae

Amphibians

🦎Hellbender

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)

미국장수도롱뇽(학명: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)는 북아메리카에 서식하는 대형 도롱뇽이다. 주로 크고 빠르게 흐르며 저면이 바위로 되어 있는 개울에 서식한다. 헬벤더("hellbender")라는 이름이 붙은 이유는, 사람들이 처음 이 종을 발견하였을 때, 지옥에서 온 악마같은 느낌이 든다고 해서 “헬밴더”라고 호명했다, 다른 이름으로는 아메리카장수도룡뇽, 아메리카왕도룡뇽, 악마개, 망나니 수달이라는 말이있다. 아메리카에서 가장 큰 양서류로, 최대 74cm까지 자란 경우도 보고 되었다.

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vs you

≈ 1/170th of your weight

Conservation status

VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing

Key measurements

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

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Everything we know about the Hellbender

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

0.36 kg

AnAge

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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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0.36 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)

Body length

0.74 m

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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan

29 yearsrecord 30 years · AmphiBIO

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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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Gestation

72 days

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data quality: acceptable

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Litter size

about 275

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data quality: acceptable

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Diet

arthropods, vertebrates

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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l

0.4 Laverage

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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.

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In other languages

mocsári ördög (hu), salamandra gegant americana (ca), velemlok americký (cs), Schlammteufel (de), Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (es), سمندر آبی (fa) … and 19 more languages

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