Caiman | |
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Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare | |
Scientific classification ![]() |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superorder: | Crocodylomorpha |
Order: | Crocodilia |
Family: | Alligatoridae |
Clade: | Jacarea |
Genus: | Caiman Spix, 1825 |
Type species | |
Caiman fissipes Spix, 1825 |
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Caiman is a genus of caimans within the alligatorid subfamily Caimaninae. They inhabit Central and South America. They are relatively small crocodilians, with most species reaching lengths of only a few meters, although one species, the black caiman, can exceed 4 m (13 ft) in length.[1]
Taxonomy
- Genus Caiman
- Caiman wannlangstoni†[2]
- Caiman venezuelensis†[3]
- Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare
- Spectacled caiman, Caiman crocodilus
- Rio Apaporis caiman, C. c. apaporiensis
- Brown caiman, C. c. fuscus
- Caiman lutescans (extinct)
- Broad-snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris
References
- ^ Brochu, C. A. (1999). "Phylogenetics, Taxonomy, and Historical Biogeography of Alligatoroidea". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6: 9–100. doi:10.2307/3889340. JSTOR 3889340.
- ^ Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, John J. Flynn, Patrice Baby, Julia V. Tejada-Lara, Frank P. Wesselingh and Pierre-Olivier Antoine (2015). "A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1804): 20142490. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2490.
- ^ Costa Fortiera y Ascanio Daniel Rincón, Daniel (2012). "Pleistocene crocodylians from Venezuela, and the description of a new species of Caiman". Quaternary International 305: 141–148. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.018.
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