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| West African crocodile | |
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| Specimen in Bazoulé, Burkina Faso | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Clade: | Archosauriformes |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Crocodylidae |
| Genus: | Crocodylus |
| Species: | C. suchus
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| Binomial name | |
| Crocodylus suchus Geoffroy, 1807
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| Synonyms | |
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The West African crocodile, desert crocodile, or sacred crocodile (Crocodylus suchus)[2] is a species of crocodile related to, and often confused with, the larger and more aggressive Nile crocodile (C. niloticus).[3][4]
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Crocodylus suchus, The Reptile Database
- ^ Schmitz, A.; Mausfeld, P.; Hekkala, E.; Shine, T.; Nickel, H.; Amato, G. & Böhme, W. (2003). "Molecular evidence for species level divergence in African Nile crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1786)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2 (8): 703–12. Bibcode:2003CRPal...2..703S. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2003.07.002.
- ^ Pooley, S. (2016). "A Cultural Herpetology of Nile Crocodiles in Africa". Conservation & Society. 14 (4): 391–405. doi:10.4103/0972-4923.197609.
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