Caiman yacare
Authors/Creators
- 1. FAUNA Paraguay, Encarnación, Paraguay. & Fundación Para La Tierra, Centro IDEAL, Pilar, Paraguay
- 2. Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Departamento de Recursos Faunísticos y Medio Natural, filial Caazapá, Paraguay.
- 3. Fundación Para La Tierra, Centro IDEAL, Pilar, Paraguay.
- 4. Programa de Reservas y Biodiversidad del Sector Medio Ambiente de la Entidad Binacional Yacyretá, Ayolas, Paraguay. & Club de Observadores de la Naturaleza, Paraguay.
- 5. Departamento de Arqueología y Paleontología, Secretaría Nacional de Cultura, Asunción, Paraguay and Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
- 6. Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay. Del Escudo 1607, Asunción, Paraguay. & Asociación Guyra Paraguay, Avenida Coronel Carlos Bóveda, Parque Asunción Verde, Viñas Cué, Asunción, Paraguay.
- 7. Agri-Herp Consult, Am Wittenborn 8, 34346 Hann. Münden, Germany.
- 8. FAUNA Paraguay, Encarnación, Paraguay.
- 9. Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Asunción, Paraguay.
Description
Yacare Caiman,
Caiman yacare (Daudin, 1802)
Two skulls of individuals hunted locally at the Prefectura Naval de Pozo Hondo (22°18’30.3”S 62°31’53.5”W) (one collected CZPLT-H 2443, Fig. 26) document the species presence in the northern reaches of the Paraguayan Pilcomayo River, and represents the first specimen of the species from Boquerón department. The only previous published report for Boquerón department (Ziegler, Unger, Feiler, Lehr, 2002) refers to sight records at Fortín Toledo (where the species is common and from where there is now a specimen available CZPLT-H 1091). The specimen reported here represents an extension of 132 km west from this, the closest previously reported locality for the species in Paraguay. A subadult individual was also observed at the Prefectura Naval de Militar Pozo Hondo 1 to 3 February 2024 by PS, PC, MF and SDR. The species is considered to be of “Least Concern” in Paraguay (Martínez et al., 2020c).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Daudin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Eusuchia
- Family
- Alligatoridae
- Genus
- Caiman
- Species
- yacare
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caiman yacare (Daudin, 1802) sec. Smith, Maciel, Hurtado, Galeano, Stepan, Brouard, Ríos, Riveros, Smith, Owen, Nicolay, Derna, Burró, Lahaye & Cacciali, 2024
References
- Ziegler, T., Unger, J., Feiler, A., Lehr, E. (2002). The first Gran Chaco Expedition of the Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden: Records of amphibians, reptiles and mammals from the Dry Chaco of Paraguay (Amphibia, Reptilia, Mammalia). Faunistische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde Dresden, 23, 219 - 238. https: // digitalcommons. iwu. edu / bio _ scholarship / 79 /
- Martinez, N., Cacciali, P., Bauer, F., Cabral, H., Tedesco, M., Vinke, S., Vinke, T., Vazquez, D., Ramos, E., Motte, M. (2020 c). Estado de conservacion y lista roja de los reptiles del Paraguay. Boletin del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, 24, 1 - 128. https: // www. mades. gov. py / wp-content / uploads / 2020 / 12 / 24 _ Supl _ 1 _ 2019 _ BolMusNacHistNatParag _ L. pdf