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Caiman yacare (Yacare caiman)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), also known as the white caiman or common caiman, is a crocodilian reptile found in much of Central and South America. It lives in a range of lowland wetland and riverine habitat types, and can tolerate salt water, as well as fresh; due in part to this adaptability, it is the most common of all crocodilian species.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25.089 lbs (11.38 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  48 grams
Female Weight [1]  23.259 lbs (10.55 kg)
Male Weight [1]  26.919 lbs (12.21 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.7 %
Egg Length [1]  2.52 inches (64 mm)
Gestation [1]  81 days
Litter Size [1]  25
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  60 years
Female Maturity [1]  6 years
Male Maturity [1]  6 years 6 months

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Madidi National Park II 3194501 Bolivia  
Mburucuyá National Park II   Corrientes, Argentina  
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park II 4006523 Bolivia  
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

Pseudis paradoxa (Paradox frog)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Tigrisoma lineatum (Rufescent Tiger-Heron)1

Predators

Nasua nasua (South American Coati)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Brevimulticaecum baylisi[4]
Brevimulticaecum stekhoveni <Unverified Name>[4]
Dujardinascaris paulista <Unverified Name>[4]
Micropleura vazi <Unverified Name>[4]
Ortleppascaris alata <Unverified Name>[4]

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
♦ 2Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 3Nasua nasua, Matthew E. Gompper and Denise M. Decker, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 580, pp. 1-9 (1998)
♦ 4Gibson, 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