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what species is this?

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i got this little guy up in austin and i was wondering what species he is, his tail is an odd shape.

his name is Mr. Vampire
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Hard to say. At first glance,the scales on it's back look like Cuviers except that some of them are larger than the rest, which would be more like Schneider's. But they look too uniform to be Schneider's. Maybe a hybrid Cuviers/Schneiders? Or possibly a Jacari hybrid?
I think you may need to wait until it has grown some more to see what charicteristics develop.
Cute little bugger, though.
 
yeah could be a hybrid, his tail is what really threw me off lol. well i will definitely post more pics as he grows. of all the caimans ive looked up and seen i havent seen one close enough to him
 
Looks like a Paleosuchus of some sort. Tail is a bit odd, but it really looks like a trigonatus to me. The eye color is pretty unique to Paleosuchids.
 
Its a trig based on the laterally projecting tail scutes and the irregular dorsal scutes:larger keels laterally, smaller keels medially . Keels are uniform and linear on palps and they also have blotched ventral scutes. I would consider a hybrid unlikely.
 
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