Crocodile

Crocodile
Scientific Classification
Kingdom	Animalia

Axplaination

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The word "crocodile" comes from Middle English cocodrill which is loaned from French cocodril which is from Latin crocodilus, which is from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος krokódeilos which is a compound perhaps from κρόκη krókē which is of Proto-Indo-European origin and δρῖλος drîlos which is of unknown origin but it is most likely from a pre-Indo-European substrate language. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily.

Extant Species

They are 18 extant species of true Crocodile that divided into three genus blow are list of extant species of crocodile from their genus:

Genus Crocodylus :

• American Crocodile (Crocodylus acustus)

• Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus jhonstoni)

• Hall's New Guinea Crocodile (Crocodylus Haili)

• New Guniea Crocodile (Crocodylus novaguinae)

• Philipine Crocodile (Crocodylus Mindorensis)

• Morelet's Crocodile (Crocodylus moreleti)

• Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) • Eastern Nile Crocodile

• West African/Desert Crocodile (Crocodylus suchcus)

• Orinoco Crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius)

Genus Osteolaemus:

• Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetrpis)

• Osborn's Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus osborni)