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Caiman crocodilus

Caiman crocodilus

Baba(+66)·(Linnaeus, 1758)

GBIF:299401165

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Geographic Distribution(1)

Brazil (incl. Mato Grosso, Acre, Pará, Piauí), Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica,

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 31 languages.

spaBabaspaspaBabillaspanldBrilkaaimannlddanBrillekaimandandeuBrillenkaimandeu+62 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 31 languages.

spaBaba
spa
spaBabilla
spa
nldBrilkaaiman
nld
danBrillekaiman
dan
deuBrillenkaiman
deu
catCaiman d'ulleres
cat
itaCaimano dagli occhiali
ita
spaCaimán
spa
spaCaimán de Anteojos
spa
fraCaïman à lunettes
fra
engCommon caiman
eng
afrGewone Kaaiman
afr
turGözlüklü Kayman
tur
porJacare tinga (Brazil)
por
porJacaretinga
por
porJacaré Tinga
por
porJacaré-do-Pantanal
por
Kaiman lunedek
bre
hrvKajman naočar
hrv
slkKajman okuliarnatý
slk
deuKrokodilkaiman
deu
spaLagarto blanco
spa
engNorthern Spectacled Caiman
eng
deuNördlicher Brillenkaiman
deu
engRio Apaporis Caiman (C. c. apaporiensis)
eng
finSilmälasikaimaani
fin
engSpeckled Caiman
eng
engSpectacled caiman
eng
porTinga
por
spaTulisio (Mexico)
spa
engWhite Caiman
eng
Yuraq lagartu
que
spababa (Venezuela)
spa
spababilla (Colombia)
spa
spacachirre
spa
caimán d'antioyos
spacascarudo
spa
spacocodrilo
spa
sweglasögonkajman
swe
spaguajipal (Nicaragua)
spa
spajacare
spa
ceskajman brýlový
ces
polkajman okularowy
pol
spalagarto blanco (Peru)
spa
slvnavadni kajman
slv
spaocoroche
spa
spapolulo (Mexico)
spa
hunpápaszemes kajmán
hun
spatulisio
spa
ellΚοινός Καϊμάν
ell
ukrКайман крокодиловий
ukr
ukrКрокодиловий кайман
ukr
rusКрокодиловый кайман
rus
bulОчилат кайман
bul
mkdОчилен кајман
mkd
srpобични кајман
srp
hebקיימן ממושקף
heb
araالكيمن ذو النظّارة
ara
araالكَيْمَن أبو النظَّارة
ara
araالكَيْمَن الشائع
ara
araالكَيْمَن المألوف
ara
araالكَيْمَن المُنظَّر
ara
araالكَيْمَن ذو النظّارة
ara
araكايمن ذو النظارات
ara
کائمان مگرمچھ
jpnメガネカイマン
jpn
zho眼鏡凱門鱷
zho

CLASSIFICATION

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299401165
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
8953936
Taxon ID
PBBP
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026