The Central African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus) is one of two species of crocodiles in the genus Mecistops. It was once thought... 7 KB (689 words) - 09:32, 12 April 2024 |
use by the three crocodile species in Liberia (West African, slender-snouted and dwarf), it was found that the West African crocodile typically occupied... 20 KB (1,951 words) - 11:11, 20 March 2024 |
Mecistops (redirect from African slender-snouted crocodile) Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa. Traditionally placed in Crocodylus, recent studies in... 20 KB (1,557 words) - 23:24, 29 April 2024 |
The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis), also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile (a name more often used for the Asian... 23 KB (2,249 words) - 06:20, 27 April 2024 |
exist. This species is shy and has a slenderer snout and slightly smaller teeth than the dangerous saltwater crocodile. The body colour is light brown with... 22 KB (2,254 words) - 21:28, 5 May 2024 |
Voay. The saltwater crocodile has a wide snout compared to most crocodiles. However, it has a longer snout than the mugger crocodile (C. palustris); its... 119 KB (13,227 words) - 22:18, 5 May 2024 |
of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles). Crocodylinae... 12 KB (489 words) - 09:06, 12 April 2024 |
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis), also known as the Mindoro crocodile, the Philippine freshwater crocodile, the bukarot in Ilocano, and... 25 KB (2,580 words) - 17:28, 23 March 2024 |
crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles... 65 KB (6,959 words) - 23:03, 12 May 2024 |
Alligator (redirect from Differences between alligators and crocodiles) shovel-like, U-shaped snouts, while crocodile snouts are typically more pointed or V-shaped. The alligators' broader snouts have been contentiously... 45 KB (4,921 words) - 21:44, 17 April 2024 |
is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae containing the dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles, and is the sister taxon... 12 KB (617 words) - 02:13, 30 April 2024 |
The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) is a small-medium species of crocodile endemic to Cuba. Typical length is 2.1–2.3 m (6.9–7.5 ft) and typical... 23 KB (2,277 words) - 05:57, 27 April 2024 |
"Broad-snouted Caiman Caiman latirostris". Crocodiles. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF) (3 ed.). Darwin, Australia: Crocodile Specialist... 13 KB (1,328 words) - 19:07, 9 May 2024 |
large Mourasuchus, which had a wide duck-like snout. Caimans are predators and, like alligators and crocodiles, their diet largely consists of fish. Caimans... 14 KB (1,038 words) - 04:02, 9 May 2024 |
The Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) is a medium-sized freshwater crocodile native to Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia... 31 KB (3,288 words) - 14:50, 10 March 2024 |
List of crocodilians (redirect from List of crocodiles) of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans, and the gharial and false gharial. A member... 27 KB (1,036 words) - 16:52, 8 February 2024 |
more closely related to the American alligator than to either the Nile crocodile or the gharial. This is a stem-based definition for alligators, and is... 21 KB (1,559 words) - 22:03, 30 April 2024 |
Crocodylus, but is now thought to be more closely related to the modern African dwarf crocodiles (Osteolaemus). The first fossil of Rimasuchus an incomplete skull... 10 KB (1,026 words) - 09:27, 12 April 2024 |
Euthecodon (category Miocene reptiles of Africa) Euthecodon is an extinct genus of long-snouted crocodile. It was common throughout much of Africa during the Neogene, with fossils being especially common... 26 KB (2,951 words) - 09:40, 12 April 2024 |
slimmest snouts of any living crocodilian, comparable to that of the slender-snouted crocodile and the freshwater crocodile in slenderness; only that... 25 KB (2,431 words) - 09:16, 27 April 2024 |
Gharial (redirect from Fish-eating crocodile) pp. 160–161. Daudin, F. M. (1802). "Le crocodile à bec étroit ou le grand Gavial [The straight-snouted crocodile or the great Gavial]". Histoire Naturelle... 85 KB (9,454 words) - 12:09, 22 April 2024 |
palaios meaning "ancient" and soukhos meaning "crocodile". This refers to the belief that this crocodile comes from an ancient lineage that diverged from... 23 KB (2,528 words) - 23:03, 12 May 2024 |
The New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae) is a small species of crocodile found on the island of New Guinea north of the mountain ridge that... 23 KB (2,661 words) - 14:48, 10 March 2024 |