The family Alligatoridae of crocodylians includes alligators, caimans and their extinct relatives. The superfamily Alligatoroidea includes all crocodilians...
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List of crocodilians (section Family Alligatoridae)
9 genera and 28 species of Crocodilia are split into 3 subfamilies: Alligatoridae, alligators and caimans; Crocodylidae, true crocodiles; and Gavialidae...
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Alligator (category Alligatoridae)
colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae in the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator...
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Black caiman (category Alligatoridae)
over 750 kg (1,700 lb), it is the largest living species of the family Alligatoridae, and the third-largest crocodilian in the Neotropical realm. True to...
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Caiman (category Alligatoridae)
to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans are native to Central and...
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Melanosuchus (category Alligatoridae)
of the subfamily Caimaninae, as well as the entire alligator family Alligatoridae. There are two known valid species of Melanosuchus, one extant and one...
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Broad-snouted caiman (category Alligatoridae)
broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) is a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae found in eastern and central South America, including the Pantanal habitat...
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Spectacled caiman (category Alligatoridae)
common caiman, and speckled caiman, is a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae. It is brownish-, greenish-, or yellowish-gray colored and has a spectacle-like...
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Cuvier's dwarf caiman (category Alligatoridae)
American crocodilian: the Schneider's dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)". PeerJ. 7: e6580. doi:10.7717/peerj.6580. PMC 6433001...
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which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both members of the family Gavialidae)...
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Yacare caiman (category Alligatoridae)
spectacled caiman, is a species of caiman, a crocodilian in the family Alligatoridae. The species is endemic to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay...
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the second largest member by length and the heaviest of the family Alligatoridae, after the black caiman. Females are smaller, measuring 2.6 to 3 m (8...
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crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), and the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae). Although the...
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alligators, and is more inclusive than the crown group Alligatoridae. As a crown group, Alligatoridae only includes the last common ancestor of all extant...
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Alligatorinae (category Alligatoridae)
Alligatorinae is a subfamily within the family Alligatoridae that contains the alligators and their closest extinct relatives, and is the sister taxon...
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Crocodylomorpha Suborder Eusuchia Family Crocodylidae – crocodiles Family Alligatoridae – alligators Family Gavialidae – gharials Reptile List of regional reptiles...
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List of reptiles of Mexico (section Alligatoridae)
Duméril & Bocourt, 1851 Order: Crocodylia · Family: Alligatoridae The alligatorids (Alligatoridae) are a family of crocodilian sauropsids (reptiles) native...
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Paleosuchus (category Alligatoridae)
American genus of reptiles in the subfamily Caimaninae of the family Alligatoridae. They are the smallest members of the order Crocodilia in the Americas...
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mississippiensis) are the only living species in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. Dark gray or black in color with a fully armored body, the Chinese...
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Gavialidae, Crocodylidae and Alligatoridae are clade names that are here applied to a phylogenetic tree of crocodylians....
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This is a list of reptiles in Costa Rica. Genus Basiliscus (brown basilisk, common basilisk, plumed basilisk) Genus Corytophanes (helmeted iguana) Genus...
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free dictionary. An alligator is a large crocodilian reptile in the Alligatoridae family. Alligator may also refer to: Alligator leather Alligator meat...
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List of reptiles of El Salvador (section Alligatoridae)
acutus Cuvier, 1807 [VU] Order: Crocodylia · Family: Alligatoridae The alligatoridae (Alligatoridae) are a family of crocodilian sauropsids (reptiles) native...
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Purussaurus (category Alligatoridae)
Bocquentin-Villanueva, Jean (2006). "A new giant Purussaurus (Crocodyliformes, Alligatoridae) from the Upper Miocene Urumaco Formation, Venezuela". Journal of Systematic...
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Smooth-fronted caiman (category Alligatoridae)
and Orinoco Basins. It is the second-smallest species of the family Alligatoridae, the smallest being Cuvier's dwarf caiman, also from tropical South...
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Alligatoroidea is disputed. Some studies have shown it as a basal member of Alligatoridae, within the stem-based group Alligatorinae, as shown in the cladogram...
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denticulatus (Linnaeus, 1766) Order: Crocodylia · Family: Alligatoridae The alligatoridae (Alligatoridae) are a family of crocodilian sauropsids (reptiles) native...
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Caiman (genus) (category Alligatoridae)
American crocodilian: the Schneider's dwarf caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Alligatoridae: Caimaninae)". PeerJ. 7: e6580. doi:10.7717/peerj.6580. PMC 6433001...
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tetradactyla (Pilosa: Myrmecophagidae) by Caiman latirostris (Crocodylia: Alligatoridae) in a highly seasonal habitat in Central Brazil" (PDF). North-Western...
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