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    Species Accepted

    Crocodylus moreletii Duméril & Bibron, 1851

    Belize Crocodile
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Crocodylus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Alligator Spanish
      Belize Crocodile English
      Beulenkrokodil German
      Brednæsekrokodille Danish
      Bultkrokodil Dutch
      Central American Crocodile English
      Coccodrillo di Morelet Italian
      Coccodrillo messicano Italian
      Cocodrilo de Morelet Spanish
      Cocodrilo de Moreleti Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      92 results
      Dunkle, D. H. (1935). Note on Crocodylus moreletii A. Dumeril from Mexico. Copeia 1935 (4): 182.
      Campbell, J. A. (1998). Amphibians and reptiles of northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Xiii + 380 Pp.
      Hunt, R. H. (1975). Maternal behaviour in the Morelet’s crocodile, Crocodylus moreleti. Copeia 1975 (4): 763-764.
      Cornejo-Páramo, P., Lira-Noriega, A., Ramírez-Suástegui, C. et al. (2020). Sex determination systems in reptiles are related to ambient temperature but not to the level of climatic fluctuation. BMC Evol Biol 20: 103.
      Trutnau, L., & Sommerlad, R. (2006). Crocodilians. Their natural history and captive husbandry. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 646 Pp. [Review in Reptilia GB 48: 8-10].
      Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, & Canseco-Márquez L. (2021). Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153.
      Navarro Serment, C. J. (2004). The return of Morelet’s Crocodile, Crocodylus moreletii. Reptilia (GB) (36): 54-60.
      Dever, Jennifer A., Richard E. Strauss, Thomas R. Rainwater, Scott T. McMurry and Llewellyn D. Densmore, III. (2002). Genetic diversity, population subdivision, and gene flow in Morelet’s Crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) from belize, Central America. Copeia 2002 (4): 1078-1091.
      Morelet, A. (1871). Travels in Central America. (Translated to English by M.F. Squier). Leypold, Holt and Williams, New York. 430 Pp.
      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 57 (1): 393-402.

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