West African slender-snouted crocodile
Mecistops cataphractus
The West African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) is a critically endangered species of crocodile from Africa. It is one of five species of crocodile in Africa, the other four being the Central African slender-snouted, Nile, West African and dwarf crocodiles.
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 964788.