🐊Spectacled caiman
O jacaretinga (nome científico: Caiman crocodilus), jacaré-tinga, jacaré-de-óculos, também conhecido em Portugal como caimão-de-lunetas, ou caimão-almiscarado, é um réptil carnívoro que habita diferentes tipos de rios e lagos de água doce ao sul do México, América Central e noroeste da América do Sul. No Brasil, recebeu o nome de jacaretinga por causa de seu dorso branco (tinga significa "branco" em língua tupi). Os machos chegam a medir entre 1,8 e 2,5 metros de comprimento e as fêmeas, 1,4 metros. Alimentam-se de diferentes espécies de animais: crustáceos, peixes, anfíbios, répteis, aves e pequenos mamíferos. O acasalamento ocorre na estação chuvosa. A fêmea faz um ninho aglomerando pequenas quantidades de vegetação seca e terra e põe ali de catorze a quarenta ovos que demoram, em média, sessenta dias para eclodir. Ao nascer, medem cerca de vinte centímetros.
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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 ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
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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