Crocodylus

Extant Species

The 13 living species are:

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Crocodylus acutus	American crocodile	Southern Florida and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of southern Mexico to South America as far south as Peru and Venezuela, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Grand Cayman.
	Crocodylus intermedius	Orinoco crocodile	Colombia and Venezuela
	Crocodylus johnsoni	Freshwater crocodile	Northern regions of Australia
	Crocodylus mindorensis	Philippine crocodile	Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park within the Luzon rainforest, San Mariano, Isabela, Dalupiri island in the Babuyan Islands, Abra (province) in Luzon and the Ligawasan Marsh, Lake Sebu in South Cotabato, Pulangi River in Bukidnon, and possibly in the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Mindanao
	Crocodylus moreletii	Morelet's crocodile or Mexican crocodile	Mexico, Belize and Guatemala
	Crocodylus niloticus	Nile crocodile or African crocodile, (the subspecies found in Madagascar, C. n. madagascariensis, is sometimes called the black crocodile)	Israel and Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Angola, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Botswana, and Cameroon
	Crocodylus novaeguineae	New Guinea crocodile	New Guinea
	Crocodylus palustris	Mugger crocodile, marsh crocodile, or Indian crocodile	India
	Crocodylus porosus	Saltwater crocodile or estuarine crocodile	Southeast Asia and Northern Australia
	Crocodylus rhombifer	Cuban crocodile	Cuba
	Crocodylus siamensis	Siamese crocodile	Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
	Crocodylus suchus	West African crocodile or desert crocodile	Mauritania, Benin, Liberia, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gabon, Togo, Ivory Coast and Republic of Congo
	Crocodylus raninus (Considered to be a synonym of Crocodylus porosus; its status remains unclear.[1])		Borneo

Fossils

Established species also include six extinct species:^[2]

• † Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene of Tanzania.
• † Crocodylus bugtiensis is an extinct crocodile from Late Oligocene of Pakistan.
• † Crocodylus checchiai is an extinct crocodile from Late Miocene of Kenya.
• † Crocodylus falconensis is an extinct crocodile from Early Pliocene of Venezuela.
• † Crocodylus palaeindicus is an extinct crocodile the Miocene to the Pleistocene of southern Asia.
• † Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni is an extinct crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya.

Phylogeny

The cladogram below follows the topology from a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences by Robert W. Meredith, Evon R. Hekkala, George Amato and John Gatesy.^[3]

The cladogram below follows the topology from a 2012 analysis of morphological traits by Christopher A. Brochu and Glenn W. Storrs. Many extinct species of Crocodylus might represent different genera. C. suchus was not included, because its morphological codings were identical to these of C. niloticus. However, the authors suggested that it could be explained by their specimen sampling, and considered the two species to be distinct.^[2]