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    Species Accepted

    Caiman yacare (Daudin, 1801)

    Jacare Caiman
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Caiman
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      35 results
      Brillenkaiman German
      Caimano jacarè Italian
      Caïman yacare French
      Jacara French
      Jacare Caiman English
      Jacarenkaimaani Finnish
      Jacaré Portuguese
      Jacaré-de-lunetas Portuguese
      Jacaré-do-Pantanal Portuguese
      Jacaré-do-Paraguai Portuguese

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      58 results
      Pinheiro, M.S.; Andreotti E Silva, R. & Santos, S.A. (2001). OBSERVATIONS ON THE THERMAL SELECTION OF THE PANTANAL CAIMAN (Caiman crocodilus yacare) HATCHLINGS (Crocodylia: Alligatoridae). Rev. Brasil. Biol., 61(2): 323-327.
      Paola De la Quintana, James Aparicio, and Luis F. Pacheco. (2020). Home range and habitat use of two sympatric crocodylians (Melanosuchus niger and Caiman yacare) under changing habitat conditions. Amphibia-Reptilia 42 (1): 115–123 [2021].
      Souza FL, Uetanabaro M, Landgref-Filho P, Piatti L, & Prado CPA. (2010). Herpetofauna, municipality of Porto Murtinho, Chaco region, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Check List 6(3): 470-475.
      Brito, E. S., Valadão, R. M., Malvasio, A., Freitas, A. F. F., Muniz, F. L., Molina, F. B., Souza, F. L., Moura, G. J. B., Costa, H. C., Bassetti, L. A. B., Friol, N. R., Rocha, S. B., Gomides, S. C., Marques, T. S., & Portelinha, T. C. G. (2025). Quelônios Continentais e Crocodilianos do Brasil, 1. Ed. Agência Estadual de Meio Ambiente Do Estado de Pernambuco, Recife, 350pp.
      Trutnau, L., & Sommerlad, R. (2006). Crocodilians. Their natural history and captive husbandry. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 646 Pp. [Review in Reptilia GB 48: 8-10].
      Pierini, S.E., Adjad, F., Bauso, J., Imhof, A., Piña, C.I. and Simoncini, M.S. (2025). Dietary patterns of Yacare in the wetlands of Corrientes, Argentina. J Zool, 327: 292-301.
      Harper, & Francis. (1940). Some works of Bartram, Daudin, Latreille, and Sonnini, and their bearing upon North American herpetological nomenclature. American Midland Naturalist 23 (3): 692-723.
      Carrillo, J F C; (2019). Caiman yacare (Yacare Caiman, Jacaré do Pantanal) Tadpoles in diet. Herpetological Review 50 (1): 130-131.
      Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith. (2016). The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, Number 11: 1–373.
      Cintra, R. (1988). Nesting Ecology of the Paraguayan Caiman (Caiman yacare) in the Brazilian Pantanal. Journal of Herpetology 22 (2): 219-222.

      Citation

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