West African crocodile

Not to be confused with West African slender-snouted crocodile.

West African crocodile
Specimen in Bazoulé, Burkina Faso
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: Archosauriformes
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Genus: Crocodylus
Species:
C. suchus
Binomial name
Crocodylus suchus
Geoffroy, 1807
Synonyms
  • C. niloticus suchus

The West African crocodile, desert crocodile, or sacred crocodile (Crocodylus suchus)[2] is a species of crocodile related to, and often confused with, the larger and more aggressive Nile crocodile (C. niloticus).[3][4]

  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. ^ Crocodylus suchus, The Reptile Database
  3. ^ Schmitz, A.; Mausfeld, P.; Hekkala, E.; Shine, T.; Nickel, H.; Amato, G. & Böhme, W. (2003). "Molecular evidence for species level divergence in African Nile crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1786)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2 (8): 703–12. Bibcode:2003CRPal...2..703S. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2003.07.002.
  4. ^ Pooley, S. (2016). "A Cultural Herpetology of Nile Crocodiles in Africa". Conservation & Society. 14 (4): 391–405. doi:10.4103/0972-4923.197609.