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🦎Hellbender
De modderduivel (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) is een salamander uit de familie reuzensalamanders (Cryptobranchidae). De soort werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door François Marie Daudin in 1803. Oorspronkelijk werd de wetenschappelijke naam Triton alleghaniensis gebruikt.
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 ↑
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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
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Litter sizeabout 275AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Dietarthropods, vertebratesAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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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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