Osteolaemus tetraspis Cope, 1861
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Cope, E. D. Recent species of Emydosaurian reptiles represented in the Museum of the Academy.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Crocodylia
- family
- Crocodylidae
- genus
- Osteolaemus
- species
- Osteolaemus tetraspis
Name
- Synonyms
- Crocodilus frontatus Murray, 1862
- Halcrosia afzelii Lilljeborg, 1867
- Halcrosia nigra Gray, 1867
- Osteolaemus tetraspes Cope, 1861
- Osteolaemus tetraspis tetraspis
- Homonyms
- Osteolaemus tetraspis Cope, 1861
- Common names
- African Dwarf Crocodile in English
- Broad-nosed Crocodile in English
- Broad-nosed crocodile in English
- Dwarf Crocodile in English
- Dwarf crocodile in English
- Stumpfkrokodil in German
- West African Dwarf Crocodile in English
- West African dwarf crocodile in English
- dwarf crocodile in language.
- African Dwarf Crocodile in English
- Cocodrilo Chico Africano in Spanish
- Crocodile nain Africain in French
- Crocodile à front large in French
- Crocodile à nuque cuirassée in French
- West African Dwarf Crocodile in English
Bibliographic References
- Cope, E. D. (1861). Recent species of Emydosaurian reptiles represented in the Museum of the Academy. <em>Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia.</em> 1860: 549-551.
- King, F. W., and R. L. Burke, eds., 1989: null. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference.
- 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
- Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.