Caiman crocodilus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	CROCODYLIA	ALLIGATORIDAE

Scientific Name:

Caiman crocodilus

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English

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Common Caiman, Spectacled Caiman

Synonym/s:

Lacerta crocodilus Linnaeus, 1758

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/least concern ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Crocodile Specialist Group

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

Justification:
Probably numbers in the millions, widely distributed throughout range, although locally depleted or extirpated in some localities.

History:

1988	–	Threatened (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Threatened (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	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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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Systems:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It is listed on CITES Appendix I (Caiman crocodilus apaporiensis) and Appendix II.

Conservation Actions:

It is listed on CITES Appendix I (Caiman crocodilus apaporiensis) and Appendix II.

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Crocodile Specialist Group. 2012. Specialist Group website. Available at: http://www.iucncsg.org/. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Crocodile Specialist Group. 2012. Specialist Group website. Available at: http://www.iucncsg.org/.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Citation:	Crocodile Specialist Group 1996. Caiman crocodilus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 May 2013.
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