Crocodilus vulgaris
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Crocodilus vulgaris
New Latin name Crocodylus niloticus
Common name Nederlands: Nijlkrokodil
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The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the central, eastern, and southern regions of the continent and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers and marshlands. |
