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Taxon: Species Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758) - common caiman (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Crocodylia - (Family) Alligatoridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Alligatoridae (Clade) Cuvier 1807 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Caimaninae (Clade) Brochu 1999 Ref: C.A. Brochu, 1999: 66.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Alligatorinae (Clade) Kälin 1940 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Current position

Caiman (Genus) Spix, 1825 Ref: P. Uetz et al., 2016: 16 Aug 2016.

Historical positions

Alligatoroidea (Clade) Gray 1844 {Brochu 2003} Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: fig. 13.
Caimaninae (Clade) Brochu 1999 Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: figs. 1, 5.
Caiman (Genus) Spix, 1825 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 594.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 5ss
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