ITIS Standard Report Page: Caiman crocodilus

Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174370

Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Species
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	Common Caiman [English]
		Spectacled Caiman [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cord�s, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vert�br�s, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 – r�pteis, reptiles, Reptiles
	Order	Crocodilia – crocodilo, jacar�, Crocodilians, crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials
	Family	Alligatoridae – Caimans, Alligators
	Genus	Caiman Spix, 1825 – Caimans
	Species	Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Caiman, Spectacled Caiman
		Direct Children:
	Subspecies	Caiman crocodilus apaporiensis Medem, 1955 – Apaporis River Caiman
	Subspecies	Caiman crocodilus chiapasius (Bocourt, 1876)
	Subspecies	Caiman crocodilus crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Caiman
	Subspecies	Caiman crocodilus fuscus (Cope, 1868) – Brown Caiman

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Roy W. McDiarmid
	Notes:	U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Checklist of CITES Species Part 1 CITES species index, CD-ROM (version 2011)
	Acquired:	2011
	Notes:	UNEP-WCMC (Comps.) 2011. Checklist of CITES species (CD-ROM). CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN 2-88323-030-7. Available online at http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/pub/checklist11/index.html or from CITES Secretariat, Chemin des An�mones, 1219 Ch�telaine, Gen�ve, Switzerland
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Source:	Comisi�n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)
	Acquired:	2000
	Notes:	CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Source:	Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians ..., ed. 6.1, website (version 6.1)
	Acquired:	2011
	Notes:	Boundy, J., F. Burbrink, J. Campbell, B. Crother, K. de Quiroz, D. Frost, R. Highton, J. Iverson, F. Kraus, R. McDiarmid, J. Mendelson III, P. Meylen, R. Pyron, T. Reeder, M. Seidel, S. Tilley and D. Wake (Crother, B., ed.). Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence In Our Understanding. Edition 6.1, Last updated: 24 May 2011. Available at http://www.ssarherps.org/pages/comm_names/Index.php
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus, Spectacled Caiman [English]

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2004
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, draft (2004)
	Page(s):
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2004) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus, Common Caiman [English]

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de M�xico, cambios taxon�micos recientes, y nuevas especies
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17
	Page(s):	iv + 73
	Publisher:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History
	Publication Place:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-911239-42-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	King, F. W., and R. L. Burke, eds.
	Publication Date:	1989
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
	Page(s):
	Publisher:	Association of Systematics Collections
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-942924-15-0
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Caiman crocodilus

Geographic Information


	Geographic Division:	North America
		Middle America
		Caribbean
		South America

	Jurisdiction/Origin:	Continental US, Introduced
		Caribbean Territories, Introduced
		Mexico, Native

Comments


	Comment:	CITES: Appendix II listed under Crocodylia except the subspecies included in Appendix I, adopted at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Doha, 2010)

Subordinate Taxa	Rank	Verified Standards Met	Verified Min Standards Met	Unverified	Percent Standards Met


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