🦎Common mudpuppy
Necturus maculosus é uma espécie de anfíbio caudado pertencente à família Proteidae. Pode ser encontrada nos Estados Unidos e no Canadá. Está distribuída desde o sul da Manitoba e sul do Quebec até ao Oklahoma, norte do Mississippi, norte do Alabama e norte da Geórgia. O tamanho da sua população é desconhecido, mas maior do que 100 000 indivíduos sendo ainda abundante em vários rio e lagos no norte da sua distribuição. O seu habitat inclui lagos permanentes, charcos, riachos e rios. Pode ser encontrada no fundo dos cursos de água, escondida debaixo de pedras ou detritos, durante o dia. Os seus ovos são depositados debaixo de objectos na água. Estes animais podem subir as correntes para desovar. Em 2004, não foram encontradas ameaças, pois a espécie parece tolerar algum grau de poluição na água e ao assoreamento.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- Body mass
- 0.22 kg
- Body length
- 0.49 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 34 years
Everything we know about the Common mudpuppy
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.22 kgAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.49 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan34 yearsrecord 34 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Gestation50 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 68AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Dietarthropods, vertebratesAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l0.2 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 Common mudpuppy yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderCaudata
- ›familyProteidae
- ›genusNecturus
- ›speciesNecturus maculosus
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- familyProteidae
- genusNecturus
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- superfamilySalamandroidea
- familyProteidae
- genusNecturus
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