Dwarf crocodile

Dwarf crocodile
Temporal range: Miocene - Recent, 11.6–0 Ma[1]
At Dorée Tropical Aquarium
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[3]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Subfamily: Osteolaeminae
Genus: Osteolaemus
Species:
O. tetraspis
Binomial name
Osteolaemus tetraspis
Cope, 1861[4]
Range of the dwarf crocodile in green

The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis), also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile (a name more often used for the Asian mugger crocodile) or bony crocodile,[5] is an African crocodile that is also the smallest extant (living) species of crocodile.

  1. ^ Rio, Jonathan P.; Mannion, Philip D. (6 September 2021). "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem". PeerJ. 9: e12094. doi:10.7717/peerj.12094. PMC 8428266. PMID 34567843.
  2. ^ Crocodile Specialist Group (1996). "Osteolaemus tetraspis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T15635A4931429. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15635A4931429.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference RDB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Osteolaemus tetraspis (Cope, 1861)". crocodilian.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2019.