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Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768
Authors/Creators
- 1. Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES & Museum fUr Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, GERMANY 3 Herpetology Section, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 40658 - 00100, Nairobi, KENYA
Description
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768
CITES App. II
Vouchers: None
Localities: AB (L), IL (L, B), KF (L, G)
Remarks: The Lake Turkana population of Nile Crocodiles used to be the largest in the world (IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2020). Recent data suggests that the crocodiles are heavily impacted by local fishermen who destroy nesting sites, and the remaining population is only a fraction of what it used to be (IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2020). We found Crocodylus niloticus in Lake Turkana and adjacent water bodies along the shoreline. Very young juveniles (Fig. 4A) were found in March/April.
Notes
Published as part of Kirchhof, Sebastian, Wasonga, Victor, Mazuch, Tomáš, Spawls, Stephen & Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta, 2023, An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys, pp. 1-18 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 324) (e 324) 17 (1 / 2) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761910
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Laurenti
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Eusuchia
- Family
- Crocodylidae
- Genus
- Crocodylus
- Species
- niloticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768 sec. Kirchhof, Wasonga, Mazuch, Spawls & Malonza, 2023
References
- IUCN World Heritage Outlook. 2020. Lake Turkana National Parks - 2020 Conservation Outlook Assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Available: https: // rris. biopama. org / node / 20655 [Accessed: 2 November 2022].