| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | REPTILIA | CROCODYLIA | ALLIGATORIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Caiman crocodilus | |||
| Species Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Lower Risk/least concern ver 2.3 | ||||||
| Year Assessed: | 1996 | ||||||
| Annotations: |
Needs updating
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| Assessor/s | Crocodile Specialist Group | ||||||
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Justification: Probably numbers in the millions, widely distributed throughout range, although locally depleted or extirpated in some localities. |
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Native:
Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela
Introduced:
Cuba; Puerto Rico; United States
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| Systems: | Terrestrial; Freshwater |
| Citation: | Crocodile Specialist Group 1996. Caiman crocodilus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2010. |
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