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    The West African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus), or slender-snouted crocodile, is a critically endangered species of African crocodile...
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    The Central African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus) is one of two species of crocodiles in the genus Mecistops. It was once thought...
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    use by the three crocodile species in Liberia (West African, slender-snouted and dwarf), it was found that the West African crocodile typically occupied...
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    Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa. Traditionally placed in Crocodylus, recent studies in...
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    The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis), also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile (a name more often used for the Asian...
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    Mecistops cataphractus West African slender-snouted crocodile Mecistops leptorhynchus Central African slender-snouted crocodile Genus Brochuchus† Brochuchus...
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    The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is a medium-sized broad-snouted crocodile, also known as mugger and marsh crocodile. It is native to freshwater...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a critically endangered crocodile. Its population is very small, and they can only be found in the Orinoco...
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    of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles). Crocodylinae...
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    throughout Africa. These have consisted of C. n. africanus (informally named the East African Nile crocodile), C. n. chamses (the West African Nile crocodile),...
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    The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis), also known as the Mindoro crocodile, the Philippine freshwater crocodile, the bukarot in Ilocano, and...
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    crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics. It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles...
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    shovel-like, U-shaped snouts, while crocodile snouts are typically more pointed or V-shaped. The alligators' broader snouts have been contentiously...
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    is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae containing the dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles, and is the sister taxon...
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  • Thumbnail for Cuban crocodile
    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...
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    "Broad-snouted Caiman Caiman latirostris". Crocodiles. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF) (3 ed.). Darwin, Australia: Crocodile Specialist...
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  • Thumbnail for Morelet's crocodile
    Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii), also known as the Mexican crocodile or Belize crocodile, is a modest-sized crocodilian found only in the Atlantic...
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    large Mourasuchus, which had a wide duck-like snout. Caimans are predators and, like alligators and crocodiles, their diet largely consists of fish. Caimans...
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    The Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) is a medium-sized freshwater crocodile native to Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia...
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    of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans, and the gharial and false gharial. A member...
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    Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni is an extinct crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya. Crocodylus likely originated in Africa and radiated outwards towards Southeast...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    slimmest snouts of any living crocodilian, comparable to that of the slender-snouted crocodile and the freshwater crocodile in slenderness; only that...
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    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...
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    palaios meaning "ancient" and soukhos meaning "crocodile". This refers to the belief that this crocodile comes from an ancient lineage that diverged from...
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    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...
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