Nile crocodile

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Nile Crocodile
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Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
Subfamily: Crocodylinae
Genus: Crocodylus
Species: C. niloticus
Binomial name
Crocodylus niloticus
(Laurenti, 1768)

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is the largest of the four crocodile species found in Africa. They have a maximum length of 21 ft 3 in (6.2 m) from the head to the tip of the tail. They usually weigh 500 lbs (225 kg) but will reach weights of up to 2,400 pounds. The Nile crocodiles it is even found in Madagascar.


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