🐊American crocodile
美洲鱷（學名：Crocodylus acutus）是新热带界的一种大型鱷魚，為四種现存的美洲鱷魚中分布最广泛的一種，主要分佈在由北美洲美國佛羅里達州及墨西哥沿太平洋到南美洲秘鲁、委內瑞拉一帶，棲息於鹹淡水交界的紅樹林、沼澤等等的濕地。在美国境内，只分布在佛罗里达州南部與美國短吻鱷的棲地重疊，估计数量为2000头。美洲鳄的体型比其他鳄鱼都大，南部和中部美洲的雄性体长可达6.1米。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 77 kg
- Body length
- 6.1 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 47 years
Everything we know about the American crocodile
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass77 kgrecord 540 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 length6.1 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan47 yearsrecord 100 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 ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length3.8 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.
By sex
- Female3.8 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l77 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 American crocodile yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyCrocodylidae
- ›genusCrocodylus
- ›speciesCrocodylus acutus
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusCrocodylus
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