🐊Dwarf crocodile
侏儒鱷（學名：Osteolaemus tetraspis），又名非洲侏儒鱷、西非矮鱷，是鳄科侏儒鳄属的唯一一种，是世界上體型最小的鱷魚品種，身長約有1米，比中國的特有種揚子鱷還要更小。侏儒鱷於年幼時身體顏色為淺啡色，加上有黑色斑點和短條紋，成年之後轉為黑啡色。當侏儒鱷受到威脅時，牠們會立即潛進水內，並藏匿於河底的洞穴。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 1996.
- Body mass
- 40 kg
- Body length
- 1.9 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 70 years
Everything we know about the Dwarf crocodile
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass40 kgrecord 80 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Body length1.9 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan70 yearsrecord 69 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Litter sizeabout 10AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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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 l40 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 Dwarf crocodile yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classCrocodylia
- ›familyCrocodylidae
- ›genusOsteolaemus
- ›speciesOsteolaemus tetraspis
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusOsteolaemus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- familyCrocodylidae
- genusOsteolaemus
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