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Crocodiles and Alligators of the World

SLENDER-SNOUTED CROCODILES
Mecistops cataphractus
Genus Mecistops

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

DISTRIBUTION

Western African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops cataphractus

Western Africa

Central African Slender-snouted Crocodile

Mecistops leptorhynchus

Central Africa

These species have only recently been split from Mecistops cataphractus and very little information is currently available.

Comments:- Grows to about 3 to 4 meters long (10 to13 ft)


Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain


Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain


Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) photographed at Oceanogràfic, Valencia, Spain


Slender-snouted Crocodile Mecistops
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops sp) - Bali Reptile Park (Rimba Reptile Park), Bali


Slender-snouted Crocodile Mecistops
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops sp) - Bali Reptile Park (Rimba Reptile Park), Bali



Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops sp)- St. Augustine Alligator Farm (Florida)


Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops sp) - St. Augustine Alligator Farm (Florida)


Slender-snouted Crocodile Mecistops
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) skull


Slender-snouted Crocodile Mecistops
Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) skull


LINKS

West African Slender-snouted Crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus)
iNaturalist

Central African Slender-snouted Crocodile
iNaturalist

Seven Distinct African Crocodile Species,
Not Just Three, Biologists Show
Science Daily

Rigorous approaches to species delimitation
have significant implications for African
crocodilian systematics and conservation
The Royal Society


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