AnAge entry for Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Classification (HAGRID: 00145)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia (Taxon entry)
Order: Caudata
Family: Cryptobranchidae
Genus: Cryptobranchus
- Species
- Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
- Common name
- Hellbender
- Synonyms
- Salamandra alleganiensis, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi, Cryptobranchus bishopi, Triton alleghaniensis, Salamandra horrida, Salamandra gigantea, Triton alleganiensis, Molge gigantea, Cryptobranchus salamandroides, Urotropis mucronata, Protonopsis horrida, Abranchus alleghaniensis, Menopoma alleghaniensis, Salamandra alleganensis, Abranchus alleganensis, Salamandrops giganteus, Salamandrops alleghaniensis, Abranchus horrida, Eurycea mucronata, Amphiuma gigantea, Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis, Menopoma gigantea, Salamandra alleghanensis, Menopoma fusca, Protonopsis fusca, Salamandra alleghaniensis, Menopoma alleghaniense, Menopoma fuscum, Cryptobranchus fuscus, Cryptobranchus terassodactylos
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 29 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 528
- Sample size
- Medium
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
This is a relatively long-lived species, and some estimates indicate these animals may live over 30 years in the wild [0528].
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,825 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,825 days
- Incubation
- 72 days
- Metamorphosis
- Clutch size
- 275 (oviparous)
- Adult weight
- 358.1 g
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 288ºK or 14.9ºC or 58.7ºF
- Resting metabolic rate
- 0.0253 W
- Body mass
- 358.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000071 W/g
References
- [0037] Gillooly et al. (2001), Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate (PubMed)
- [0440] New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- [0528] Partners in Amphibian And Reptile Conservation: Northeast Working Group
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 173587
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account
- Encyclopaedia of Life
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 43048
- Entrez
- Search all databases
- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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- Internet
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