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NILE CROCODILES
Crocodylus niloticus

John Fowler & Rachel Barnes

Distribution (covers both species):- Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Now extinct in Israel, and the Comoros Islands

Comments:- May grow to to over 16 ft (5m) Maximum recorded size is 6.45 m (21.2 ft)

Subspecies:-

C. n. africanus (East African Nile Crocodile)
C. n. chamses (West African Nile Crocodile)
C. n. corviei (South African Nile Crocodile) 
C. n. madagascariensis(Malagasy Nile Crocodile)
C. n. niloticus (Ethiopian Nile Crocodile)
C. n. pauciscutatus (Kenyan Nile Crocodile) 

Note that these photos may be of a subspecies of Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus sp). or possibly African Crocodile (Desert Crocodile) - Crocodylus suchus which was previously considered be (Crocodylus niloticus)

Nile Crocodile
Nile Crocodile with a few digits missing!



Nile Crocodile photographed at Bioparc, Valencia, Spain


Nile Crocodile photographed at Bioparc, Valencia, Spain
Nile Crocodile photographed at Bioparc, Valencia, Spain



Nile Crocodile photographed at Bioparc, Valencia, Spain



Juvenile Nile Crocodile


Nile Crocodile Skull, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Valencia, Spain
Nile Crocodile Skull, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Valencia, Spain


Nile Crocodile
Nile Crocodile skull, Oxford Natural History Museum


Nile Crocodile skull
Nile Crocodile skull - Dubai Mall Aquarium & Zoo


Nile Crocodile
Nile Crocodile Skull, Oxford Natural History Museum


Nile Crocodile
Nile Crocodile upper jaw, Oxford Natural History Museum


Nile Crocodile
Nile Crocodile lower jaw, Oxford Natural History Museum



Stuffed Nile Crocodile, Oxford Natural History Museum

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