THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA - CROCODILES

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION
Covering Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises), Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards, Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia.

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HOME REPTILES OF NORTHERN TERRITORY COLUBRID SNAKES - Colubridae Homalopsidae Mud Snakes of NT Northern Territory PYTHON SNAKES - Pythonidae NT ELAPID SNAKES - Elapidae Cobras Coral Snakes NT SEA SNAKES - Hydrophiinae Laticaudidae Sea Kraits nORTHERN tERRITORYFILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae BLIND SNAKES OF NORTHERN TERRITORY
Northern Territory TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines NORTHERN TERRITORY DRAGON LIZARDS Agamas Agamidae NORTHERN TERRITORY GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae NORTHERN TERRITORY - LEGLESS LIZARDS - SPECIES LISTING NORTHERN TERRITORY MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae SKINKS OF NORTHERN TERRITORY- SPECIES LIST LISTING OF NORTHERN TERRITORY CROCODILES REPTILES OF THE WORLD SPECIES LISTS

LISTING OF NORTHERN TERRITORY CROCODILES
 Order Crocodylidae (Crocodiles)

Photo of a Saltwater Crocodile being fed, taken on an Adelaide River Tour, NT
Distribution Key

 

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

DISTRIBUTION

Freshwater Crocodile

Crocodylus johnstoni (or C. johnsoni)

NT, Qld, WA

Estuarine or Salt-Water Crocodile

Crocodylus porosus

NT, Qld, WA



Crocodile safety warning sign, Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park
Crocodile safety warning sign, Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park
Mutante, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

DISTRIBUTION KEY
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CI = Christmas Island

CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island

NSW = New South Wales

NT = Northern Territory

Qld = Queensland

SA = South Australia

Tas = Tasmania

Vic = Victoria

WA = Western Australia

NI = Norfolk Island

LHI = Lord Howe Island

ACT = Australian Capital Territory
(Canberra region only - excludes Jervis Bay Territory)



LINKS OF INTEREST

ESTUARINE (or Salt-Water) CROCODILE
(Crocodylus porosus)
John Fowler

Crocodylus johnstoni
Freshwater (Johnstone's) Crocodile
John Fowler

Crocodile Man - Steve Irwin

Crocodylus porosus Saltwater
(Estuarine) Crocodile
Adam Britton

Crocodylus porosus
Saltwater (Estuarine) Crocodile
IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group

Crocodylus johnstoni
Freshwater (Johnstone's) Crocodile
IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group

Crocodylus johnstoni
Freshwater (Johnstone's) Crocodile
Adam Britton

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