American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

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Subject:	American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
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Caption: "NIGHT ADVENTURE WITH ALLIGATOR."
Date 1863 (publication of first edition)
Source Scanned from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates, University of California Press version, published 1962.
Author Josiah Wood Whymper
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturalist_on_the_River_Amazons_figure_29.PNG

The American alligator or gator (Alligator mississippiensis) is a large crocodilian reptile endemic to the southeastern United States. It is one of two living species in the genus Alligator within the family Alligatoridae.

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