#1826 · 🦎 reptiles
Broad-snouted Caiman
🇳🇱 Breedsnuitkaaiman ·Caiman latirostris
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © David Bell · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Hugo Vinicius de Sousa Albuquerque Filho · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Leonel Roget · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Norton Santos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © André Vielma Mansilla · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Joachim S. Müller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Francisco González Táboas · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Bruno Chaves Animais · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Paulo Gonçalves Carvalho · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The broad-snouted caiman ( Caiman latirostris ) is a crocodilian reptile found in eastern and central South America, including southeastern Brazil, northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. It is found mostly in freshwater marshes, swamps, and mangroves, usually in still or very slow-moving waters. It will often use man-made cow ponds.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,654 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by François Marie Daudin in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Broad-snouted Caiman
- Nederlands
- Breedsnuitkaaiman
- scientific name
- Caiman latirostris
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Crocodylia
- family
- Alligatoridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,654
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by François Marie Daudin
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Alligatoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116518, Wikidata Q644453, GBIF 5846511, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.