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Caiman latirostris (Broad-snouted caiman)

Synonyms: Alligator cynocephalus; Caiman fissipes; Caiman lutescens; Crocodilus latirostris

Wikipedia Abstract

A caiman is an alligatorid crocodilian belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within Alligatoridae, the other being alligators.
View Wikipedia Record: Caiman latirostris

Infraspecies

Caiman latirostris chacoensis (Chaco broad-nosed caiman)
Caiman latirostris latirostris (Broad-nosed caiman)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  32.188 lbs (14.60 kg)
Female Weight [1]  32.188 lbs (14.60 kg)
Egg Length [1]  2.756 inches (70 mm)
Gestation [2]  70 days
Litter Size [1]  30
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  22 years
Female Maturity [1]  5 years
Male Maturity [1]  5 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
El Palmar National Park II   Entre Rios, Argentina  
Mburucuyá National Park II   Corrientes, Argentina  
Río Pilcomayo National Park II 123699 Formosa, Argentina

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No

Prey / Diet

Pomacea canaliculata (Apple snail)[4]
Pseudopalaemon bouvieri[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Herpetodiplostomum caimancola[5]
Paradiplostomum abbreviatum[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Verdade, LM & Lavorenti, A (1990). Preliminary notes on the status and conservation of Caiman latirostris in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In: Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 10th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. pp. 231-237
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4"Food habits of the Broad‐snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris: Crocodylia, Alligatoridae) in northwestern Uruguay", C. Borteiro, F. Gutiérrez, M. Tedros & F. Kolencb, Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment Volume 44, Issue 1, 2009
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0