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The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas, with populations present from South Florida, the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, [4] and the coasts of Mexico to as far south as Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Common name. Distribution. Crocodylus acutus. (Cuvier, 1807) American crocodile. Southern Florida and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of north Mexico to North America as far south as Peru and Venezuela, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Grand Cayman. Crocodylus halli [4] Murray, Russo, Zorrilla & McMahan, 2019.
Crocodylinae was cladistically defined by Christopher Brochu in 1999 as Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to it than to Osteolaemus tetraspis (the Dwarf crocodile ). [ 1][ 2] This is a stem-based definition, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae . Crocodylinae contains the extant genus ...
Genus Crocodylus – Laurenti, 1768 – fourteen species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population American crocodile. C. acutus Cuvier, 1807: Northern South America, Central America, Greater Antilles: Size: up to 500 kg (1,100 lb)
“American crocodiles range from the northern coast of South America through Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. In the U.S., only the southern end of Florida hosts a population of these ...
The American crocodile is also one of the largest crocodile species, with large males in the southern part of their range reported to approach 6.1 m (20 ft) in size. Based on projections from various skulls, the largest males may have reached 6–7 m (20–23 ft) in length, and their predicted mass reached up to 1,283 kg (2,829 lb). [ 120 ]
Crocodylus acutus American crocodile ( crown group ) Alternatively, other morphological studies have recovered Mecistops as a basal member of Crocodylinae , more closely related to Crocodylus than to Osteolaemus and the other members of Osteolaeminae , [ 1 ] [ 10 ] as shown in the cladogram below.
Osteolaeminae was named by Christopher Brochu in 2003 as a subfamily of Crocodylidae separate from Crocodylinae, and is cladistically defined as Osteolaemus tetraspis (the Dwarf crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to it than to Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile). [2][3] This is a stem-based definition, and is the sister ...