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Crocodiles (family
Crocodylidae) or true
crocodiles are
large semiaquatic reptiles that live
throughout the
tropics in Africa, Asia, the
Americas and Australia...
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split into 3 subfamilies: Alligatoridae,
alligators and caimans;
Crocodylidae, true crocodiles; and Gavialidae, the
gharial and
false gharial. Conservation...
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Crocodylus is a
genus of true
crocodiles in the
family Crocodylidae. The
generic name, Crocodylus, was
proposed by
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768....
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Crocodylinae is a
subfamily of true
crocodiles within the
family Crocodylidae, and is the
sister taxon to
Osteolaeminae (dwarf
crocodiles and slender-snouted...
- crocodiles, and is more
inclusive than the
crown group Crocodylidae. As a
crown group,
Crocodylidae only
includes the last
common ancestor of all extant...
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stratigraphic (fossil age) data
established the inter-relationships
within Crocodylidae. In 2021,
Hekkala et al. were able to use paleogenomics,
extracting DNA...
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Osteolaeminae is a
subfamily of true
crocodiles within the
family Crocodylidae containing the
dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles, and is the...
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Three species of
crocodilian are
present in India. The
mugger (or marsh)
crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is
found in
lakes and
rivers throughout the country...
- This is a list of
reptiles in Madagascar.
Total number of
species = 406
Acrantophis madagascariensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
Acrantophis dumerili (Jan...
- Tri****ic–Jur****ic
extinction event. The
order includes the true
crocodiles (family
Crocodylidae), the
alligators and
caimans (family Alligatoridae), and the gharial...
