Mecistops cataphractus Cuvier, 1825
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l’on rétablit les caractères du plusieurs espèces d’animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Crocodylia
- family
- Crocodylidae
- genus
- Mecistops
- species
- Mecistops cataphractus
Name
- Synonyms
- Crocodilus cataphractus Cuvier, 1825
- Crocodylus cataphractus Cuvier, 1824
- Mecistops bennettii Gray, 1844
- Homonyms
- Mecistops cataphractus Cuvier, 1825
- Common names
- African Gavial in English
- African Sharp-nosed Crocodile in English
- African Slender-snouted Crocodile in English
- African gharial in language.
- African slender-snouted crocodile in language.
- African slender-snouted crocodile in English
- Panzerkrokodil in German
- Slender-snouted crocodile in language.
- crocodile au long museau in language.
- crocodile à nuque cuirassée in language.
- faux gavial in language.
- faux gavial d’Afrique de l’Ouest in language.
- faux gavial ouest-africain in language.
- Slender-snouted Crocodile in English
- African Slender-snouted Crocodile in English
- Cocodrilo Hociquifino Africano in Spanish
- Crocodile au long museau in French
- Crocodile à museau allongé d'Afrique in French
- Faux gavial Africaine in French
- Panzerkrocodile in German
Bibliographic References
- King, F. W., and R. L. Burke, eds., 1989: null. Crocodilian, Tuatara, and Turtle Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference.
- McAliley, L. Rex, R. E. Willis, D. A. Ray, P. S. White, C. A. Brochu, and L. D. Densmore III, 1996: Are crocodiles really monophyletic?-Evidence for subdivisions from sequence and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 39, no. 1. 16-32.
- Uetz, P., Freed, P. & Jirí Hošek (eds.). (2021). The Reptile Database.