The spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), also known as the white caiman, common caiman, and speckled caiman, is a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae...
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yacare caiman (Caiman yacare), also known commonly as the jacare caiman, Paraguayan caiman, piranha caiman, red caiman, and southern spectacled caiman, is...
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latirostris (Broad-snouted caiman), Caiman crocodilus (Spectacled caiman), Caiman yacare (Yacare caiman), Melanosuchus niger (Black caiman), and all its descendants...
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coloured in the spectacled caiman and dark with three black spots in the black caiman. A 3-metre (10 ft), 103-kilogram (227 lb) black caiman was found to...
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Alligatoridae (redirect from Caiman (crocodilian))
Bottosaurus Genus Caiman † Caiman brevirostris Caiman crocodilus, Spectacled caiman Caiman latirostris, Broad-snouted caiman † Caiman lutescans † Caiman venezuelensis...
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The genus Caiman contains three extant (living) species: the Broad-snouted caiman ("Caiman latirostris"), the Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus)...
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coexist with the American alligator in Florida, and with the smaller spectacled caiman within Central America and South America. The IUCN lists the American...
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species of caimans. Other common names for this species include the musky caiman, the dwarf caiman, Cuvier's caiman, and the smooth-fronted caiman (the latter...
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alligator and the black caiman. Other species which often attacked humans are Morelet's crocodile and the spectacled caiman. It was estimated that over...
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studies: The head of the smooth-fronted caiman is similar in appearance to that of the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), but no bony ridge or "spectacle"...
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The broad-snouted caiman is one of three extant (living) species of the genus Caiman, the other two being the Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and...
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broad-snouted caiman, spectacled caiman and yacare caiman have been involved in non-fatal attacks. Four of them, the Siamese crocodile, broad-snouted caiman, spectacled...
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waters. The brain volume of two adult crocodiles was 5.6 cm3 for a spectacled caiman and 8.5 cm3 for a larger Nile crocodile. The largest crocodile ever...
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latirosris (Broad-snouted caiman), Caiman crocodilus (Spectacled caiman), Caiman yacare (Yacare caiman), Melanosuchus niger (Black caiman), and all its descendants...
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Seychelles giant tortoise Side-blotched lizard Speckled rattlesnake Spectacled Caiman Water moccasin Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) Western banded...
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Orinoco River region. Another problem is the increased population of spectacled caimans, a smaller crocodilian that can outcompete the Orinoco crocodile for...
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August 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2013. "Crocodile Communication: Crocodiles, Caimans, Alligators, Gharials". Flmnh.ufl.edu. 5 March 1996. Retrieved 25 July...
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reptiles include the Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius), spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), and Arrau turtle...
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park's rivers and lagoons are home to the American crocodile and spectacled caiman, along with bull sharks. Several felines are also present, including...
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cover the lower teeth, which fit into the jaws' hollows. Like the spectacled caiman, this species has a bony nasal ridge, though it is less prominent...
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semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators, and caimans; as well as the gharial and false gharial. A member of this order is called...
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broader geographic area, although other species, especially the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) (due to its small size and extreme adaptability in...
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the largest species of snake in the world, the green anaconda, the spectacled caiman, and one of the largest lizards in the Americas, the green iguana...
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spellings of the name included allagarta and alagarto. Alligators and caimans split in North America during the early Tertiary or late Cretaceous (about...
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islands' beaches, the green anaconda, the Boa constrictor and the spectacled caiman. There are at least 47 species of snakes, including only four dangerous...
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Paranasuchus (redirect from Caiman gasparinae)
of large caiman from the Late Miocene Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina. The type species was originally described as a new species of Caiman, C. gasparinae...
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species of caimans some 30 million years ago. At present, Paleosuchus contains only two members: the smooth-fronted or Schneider's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus...
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displacing native species like the West Indian manatee, Neotropical otter, spectacled caiman and turtles. The critically endangered Dahl's toad-headed turtle and...
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species, and considered it to be a junior synonym of the extant spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus). The premaxilla preserved measures 24.6 millimetres...
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American alligator) and all species closer to it than to Caiman crocodylus (the spectacled caiman). This is a stem-based definition for Alligatorinae, and...
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