Caiman latirostris

Familia: Alligatoridae
Subfamilia: Caimaninae
Genus: Caiman
Species:
Subspecies (2): C. l. chacoensis – C. l. latirostris

Caiman latirostris (Daudin, 1801)

Type locality: Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil (designated by Freiberg & Carvalho, 1965)

Holotype: MNHN 7769

Neotype: MNRJ 1258 (not valid as the holotype wasn't lost)

• Crocodilus latirostris Daudin, 1802
• Caiman fissipes Spix, 1825
• Champsa fissipes Wagler, 1828 (fide Hoogmoed & Gruber, 1983)
• Alligator cynocephalus Duméril & Bibron, 1836
• Champsa fissipes — Gulliver, 1846
• Jacare latirostris — Gray, 1862
• Alligator latirostris — Strauch, 1866 (partim)
• Alligator latirostris — Boulenger, 1886
• Caiman latirostris - Boulenger, 1889 (partim)
• Jacaretinga latirostris — Vaillant, 1898
• Caiman latirostris latirostris — Freiberg & Carvalho, 1965
• Caiman latirostris — Nickel & Auliya, 2004

• Daudin, F.M. 1801. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Second. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 432 pp. + pls. XVI–XXVIII. BHL Reference page. 

• Freiberg, M.A. & Carvalho, A.L. 1965. El yacare Sudamericano Caiman latirostris (Daudin). Physis 25(70): 351–360.
• Caramaschi, U. & Soares, M.A. 1995. An Invalid Neotype Designation for Caiman latirostris (Daudin, 1802) (Crocodylia, Alligatoridae). Journal of herpetology 29(1): 136–137. DOI: 10.2307/1565100 ResearchGate .

• [1] Listed animal in CITES Appendix I except the population of Argentina, which is in Appendix II
• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Caiman latirostris. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 October 2021.
• IUCN: Caiman latirostris  (Least Concern)
• Caiman latirostris – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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