🐊Chinese alligator
Kinesisk alligator (Alligator sinensis) är en mindre släkting till Mississippialligatorn. Den är en hotad art som lever i Kina.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 15 kg
- Body length
- 2.46 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 65 years
Everything we know about the Chinese alligator
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass15 kgrecord 84 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 length2.46 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan65 yearsrecord 70 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 ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l15 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 Chinese alligator yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyAlligatoridae
- ›genusAlligator
- ›speciesAlligator sinensis
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyAlligatorinae
- genusAlligator
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyAlligatoridae
- subfamilyAlligatorinae
- genusAlligator
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