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Gavialis gangeticus (Gharial)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as the gavial, and the fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian of the family Gavialidae, native to the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent. The global wild gharial population is estimated at fewer than 235 individuals, which are threatened by loss of riverine habitat, depletion of fish resources, and entanglement in fishing nets. As the population has declined drastically in the past 70 years, the gharial is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
View Wikipedia Record: Gavialis gangeticus

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Gavialis gangeticus

Attributes

Gestation [3]  88 days
Litter Size [3]  37
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  29 years
Migration [1]  Potamodromous
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  337.309 lbs (153.00 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  103 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  10 years
Male Maturity [2]  13 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bandhavgarh National Park II 89210 Madhya Pradesh, India  
Corbett National Park II 141853 Uttaranchal, India
Manas National Park II 135025 Assam, India
National Chambal Sanctuary IV   Madhya Pradesh, India
Royal Chitwan National Park II 292637 Nepal  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dujardinascaris woodlandi <Unverified Name>[5]
Goezia gavialidis[5]
Harmotrema microrchis[5]
Herpetodiplostomum gavialis[5]
Stephanoprora minutus[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Rao, RJ & Singh, LAK (1994). Status and conservation of the gharial in India. In: Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 12th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Vol.1. pp. 84-97
♦ 4de 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
♦ 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