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The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaland to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996. [2]
Saltwater crocodile, which has been extinct in Vietnam since at least the 1980s. Siamese crocodile which is critically endangered on the IUCN Red List and, in Vietnam, is currently only found within Cat Tien National Park, but was much more widespread historically.
Saltwater crocodile or estuarine crocodile: Eastern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Northern Australia Crocodylus rhombifer (Cuvier, 1807) Cuban crocodile: Cuba Crocodylus siamensis: Schneider, 1801: Siamese crocodile: Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Crocodylus suchus
Crocodylus novaeguineae, New Guinea crocodile; Crocodylus palustris, mugger, marsh or Indian crocodile; Crocodylus porosus, Saltwater crocodile or Estuarine crocodile Crocodylus raninus, Borneo crocodile, is currently considered to be a synonym of Crocodylus porosus; whether or not it is a distinct species remains unclear. [5]
In 1952, 500 French paratroopers dropped into the U Ming forest to attack Viet Minh and were never heard from again. [6] During the Vietnam War it was a Vietcong base area. [ 7 ] Officers Humbert Roque Versace and James N. Rowe of the United States Army were captured by the Vietcong during a battle in the U Minh Forest in October 1963.
A Siamese crocodile has been cited in the Thai folklore of Central Thailand's Krai Thong ("ไกรทอง") tales have known as well, [44] and was taken to create a television series and movies several times. [45] In Vietnam a major literary juncture occurred in 1282 when a troublesome crocodile came to inhabit a stretch of the Red River.
Crocodilians range in size from the dwarf caimans and African dwarf crocodiles, which reach 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in), to the saltwater crocodile and Nile crocodile, which reach 6 m (20 ft) and weigh up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb).
A saltwater crocodile in captivity. Size greatly varies among species, from the dwarf crocodile to the saltwater crocodile. Species of the dwarf crocodile Osteolaemus grow to an adult size of just 1.5 to 1.9 m (4.9 to 6.2 ft), [34] whereas the saltwater crocodile can grow to sizes over 6 m (20 ft) and weigh over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). [35]