Common names from other countries
Classification / Names / Names
Nomes comuns | Sinônimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
; Água doce; estuarina; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 2 m (Ref. 80914). Tropical
Western Atlantic and Eastern Central Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Found in mangroves (Ref. 83945). In terms of frequency and bulk food items of this species are in this order: fish, snails, crabs and insects, with fish being the most important food item. Caimans wait for fish to be within snapping distance, using ambush rather than pursuit. They lay motionless in the shallows or on the bottom of ponds and lakes or floating on the surface with either their eyes and nostrils showing or their head completely under water (Ref. 80914).
Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum. 2005. (Ref. 19)
Status na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Status no CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Uso pelos humanos
Pescarias: espécies comerciais
FAO - pescarias: landings | FishSource | Sea Around Us
Ferramentas
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Fontes da internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 22.6 - 28.5, mean 27 (based on 733 cells).
Categoria de preço
Unknown.