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SpeciesAlligatoridae
Reptiles

🐊Chinese alligator

Alligator sinensis Fauvel, 1879

中华短吻鳄（学名：Alligator sinensis），又称揚子鱷、中國鱷、豬婆龍，古稱鼍（tuó） 、鼍龍，是中國特有的一種鱷魚，亦是世界上體型最細小的鱷魚之一，主要分佈在長江中下游地區及太湖；模式标本产地为安徽芜湖。牠的表皮在中國古代是製造戰鼓的敲擊面和輕型盔甲的原材料。

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Also called
China Alligator
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Chinese alligator

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Body mass
15 kgrecord 84 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.46 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
65 yearsrecord 70 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Carnivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
15 Laverage
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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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classCrocodylia
  4. ›familyAlligatoridae
  5. ›genusAlligator
  6. ›speciesAlligator sinensis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. familyAlligatoridae
  3. subfamilyAlligatorinae
  4. genusAlligator
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. familyAlligatoridae
  10. subfamilyAlligatorinae
  11. genusAlligator
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Alligator sinensis (es), Alligator de Chine (fr), 扬子鳄 (zh), Aligator chiński (pl), אליגטור סיני (he), 양쯔강악어 (ko) … and 27 more languages
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