🐊Spectacled caiman
眼鏡凱門鱷（學名：Caiman crocodilus），又名眼鏡鱷、白鱷、斑紋鱷，是凱門鱷屬的一種鱷魚，它的體色呈褐色、綠色或黃灰色，因其眼球前端有一條眼鏡架般的橫骨而得名。其身長可達1.4至2.5公尺（4英尺7英寸至8英尺2英寸），體重為7至40公斤（15至88磅），雄性比雌性更長且更重。其飲食因季節而異，通常包括螃蟹、魚類、小型哺乳動物、兩棲動物和蝸牛。繁殖期為5月至8月，雌鱷魚於7月和8月會產下14至40枚卵。這種鱷魚分佈廣泛，數量眾多，是拉丁美洲的本地物種，並被引入美國、古巴和波多黎各等地區。
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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 ↑
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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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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓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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