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African Slender-snouted Crocodile
Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  order Crocodilia »  family Crocodylidae »  genus Mecistops

Scientific synonyms

Crocodylus cataphractus Cuvier, 1825
Crocodilus cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825) (misspelling) m

Other names

= African Gavial
= African Gharial
= African Sharp-nosed Crocodile
= Long-nosed Crocodile
= Long-snouted Crocodile
= Long-snouted West-African Crocodile
= Loricate Crocodile
= Panzer Crocodile
= Slender-snouted Crocodile
= Subwater Crocodile

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IUCN category:
Critically Endangered

Images

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

female

Author: Michal Sloviak

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Author: Huc Marian

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

female

Author: Michal Sloviak

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

female

Author: Michal Sloviak

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops cataphractus - African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Author: Petr Szymonik
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Taxon in country check-lists

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia†, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau†, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal†, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia
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Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Mecistops cataphractus cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825) - West African Slender-snouted Crocodile
subspecies Mecistops cataphractus congicus (Fuchs, Mertens & Wermuth, 1974) - Central African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Links and literature

EN ARKive [/african-slender-snouted-crocodile/mecistops-cataphractus/]

ARKive [http://www.arkive.org]
Data retrieved on: 16 December 2010
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018-1 [5660]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825)]
Data retrieved on: 3 August 2018
EN Reptile Database - Search [genus=Mecistops&species=cataphractus]

Reptile Database - Search [http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/] [as Mecistops cataphractus (CUVIER, 1825)]
Data retrieved on: 20 December 2013
EN Wikipedia Articles [Slender-snouted_Crocodile]

Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org]
CZ Moravec J. (2008): České názvy živočichů VII. Plazi (Reptilia) 1. Želvy (Testudines), krokodýli (Crocodylia), haterie (Rhynchocephalia)., Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 39 pp. [as Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825)]
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m misspelling

† species extinct in area described by check-list



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