Crocodylus niloticus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA REPTILIA CROCODYLIA CROCODYLIDAE

Scientific Name: Crocodylus niloticus
Species Authority: Laurenti, 1768
Common Name/s:
English Nile Crocodile

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Lower Risk/least concern     ver 2.3
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations:
Needs updating
Assessor/s Crocodile Specialist Group
Justification:
May be threatened in parts of its range.
History:
1990 Vulnerable (IUCN 1990)
1988 Vulnerable
1986 Vulnerable (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1982 Vulnerable

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Citation: Crocodile Specialist Group 1996. Crocodylus niloticus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2009.
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