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Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Laurenti, J. N. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austracorum, quod authoritate et consensu.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Crocodylia
family
Crocodylidae
genus
Crocodylus
species
Crocodylus niloticus

Name

Synonyms
Alligator cowiei Smith In Hewitt, 1937
Crocodilus chamses Bory De Saint Vincent, 1824
Crocodilus complanatus Geoffroy, 1827
Crocodilus hexaphractos (Nomen Nudum), 1886
Crocodilus lacunosus Geoffroy, 1827
Crocodilus madagascariensis Grandidier, 1872
Crocodilus marginatus Geoffroy, 1827
Crocodilus multiscutatus, 1826
Crocodilus octophractus, 1831
Crocodilus vulgaris Cuvier, 1807
Crocodilus vulgaris var. madagascariensis Boettger, 1877
Crocodylus madagascariensis Grandidier, 1872
Crocodylus worthingtoni Deraniyagala
Homonyms
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768
Common names
Buaya nil in Indonesian
Buaya sungai Nil in Indonesian
Coccodrillo del Nilo in Italian
Cocodilo del Nilo in Spanish
Cocodrilo del Nilo in Spanish
Crocodil du Nil in French
Crocodile du Nil in French
Crocodile du Nil in French
Crocodilo in Portuguese
Crocodilo-do-nilo in Portuguese
Crocodilul de Nil in Romanian
Cá sấu sông Nin in Vietnamese
Denkyem in Twi
Garwe in Shona
Ggoonya in language.
Ingona in Kinyarwanda
Krokodil an Nil in Breton
Krokodyl Nilowy in Polish
Krokodíl nílsky in Slovak
Kwena in Tswana
Leviathan in Hebrew
Malagasy Crocodile in English
Mamba in English
Mamba in English
Ngwenya in Swahili
Niilinkrokotiili in Finnish
Nijlkrokodil in Dutch
Nil Timsahı in Turkish
Nile Crocodile in English
Nile Crocodile in English
Nile crocodile in English
Nile crocodile in English
Nile crocodile in English
Nilkrokodil in German
Nilkrokodil in German
Nilkrokodille in Danish
Nilo krokodilas in Lithuanian
Nkɔ́li in Lingala
Nylkrokodil in Afrikaans
Nílarkrókódíll in Icelandic
Nīlas krokodils in Latvian
Plathond in Afrikaans
Temsah in Arabic
Tomsá in language.
Toumsa in Arabic
Voay in Malagasy
crocodilu del nilu in language.
krokodýl nilský in Czech
nilski krokodil in Slovenian
nílusi krokodil in Hungarian

Bibliographic References

  1. King, F. W., and R. L. Burke, eds., 1989: null. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference.
  2. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  3. Meganathan, P.R., Bhawna Dubey, Mark A. Batzer, David A. Ray, Ikramul Haque, 2010: Molecular phylogenetic analyses of genus Crocodylus (Eusuchia, Crocodylia, Crocodylidae) and the taxonomic position of Crocodylus porosus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 57, no. 1. 393-402.
  4. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1993: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reclassification of Nile Crocodile From Endangered To Threatened. Federal Register, vol. 58, no. 183. 49870-49875.
  5. Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.
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