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Adult hellbender in the wild in New York. (5161452281)🦎

Photo: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Re… · Public domain

SpeciesCaudataCryptobranchidae
Amphibians

🦎Hellbender

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)

美洲大鯢（學名：Cryptobranchus alleganiensis）是一種水生兩棲動物。分佈於美國東部，棲息于水淺、流速快及含氧量高的河流、溪流中。以魚和蝦為主食，偶爾吃腐肉。視力很差，嗅覺靈敏。人工飼養的美洲大鯢壽命在30歲左右。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/170th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.36 kg
Body length
0.74 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Hellbender

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.36 kg
AnAge
Other figures ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Figures vary

  • 0.36 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.74 m
AmphiBIO
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
29 yearsrecord 30 years · AmphiBIO
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

Gestation
72 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 275
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Diet
arthropods, vertebrates
AmphiBIO
Details ↓

Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Hellbender yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familyCryptobranchidae
  6. ›genusCryptobranchus
  7. ›speciesCryptobranchus alleganiensis
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. familyCryptobranchidae
  4. genusCryptobranchus
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  11. superfamilyCryptobranchoidea
  12. familyCryptobranchidae
  13. genusCryptobranchus
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In other languages
mocsári ördög (hu), salamandra gegant americana (ca), velemlok americký (cs), Schlammteufel (de), Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (es), سمندر آبی (fa) … and 19 more languages
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