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===Extant species=== The 13–14 living species are: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Taxon authority !! Common name !! Distribution |- |[[File:Croc profile (2), NPSPhoto (9255693421).jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus acutus ''|| ([[Georges Cuvier|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'' <ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Murray | first1 = Christopher M. |author-link=species:Christopher M. Murray | last2 = Russo | first2 = Peter |author2-link=species:Peter Russo | last3 = Zorrilla | first3 = Alexander |author3-link=species:Alexander Zorrilla | last4 = McMahan | first4 = Caleb D. |author4-link=species:Caleb D. McMahan | year = 2019 | title = Divergent Morphology among Populations of the New Guinea Crocodile, ''Crocodylus novaeguineae'' (Schmidt, 1928) Diagnosis of An Independent Lineage and Description of A New Species. | journal = Copeia | volume = 107 | issue = 3| pages = 517–523 | doi = 10.1643/CG-19-240 | doi-access = free }}</ref> || [[species:Christopher M. Murray|Murray]], [[species:Peter Russo|Russo]], [[species:Alexander Zorrilla|Zorrilla]] & [[species:Caleb D. McMahan|McMahan]], 2019 || [[Crocodylus halli|Hall's crocodile]] |southern New Guinea |- |[[File:Caiman del orinoco, Amazonas.JPG|120px]] || ''Crocodylus intermedius ''|| ([[:fr:Louis Graves|Graves]], 1819) || [[Orinoco crocodile]] ||Colombia and Venezuela |- |[[File:Australien-Krokodil.JPG|120px]] || ''Crocodylus johnstoni'' || [[Gerard Krefft|Krefft]], 1873 || [[Freshwater crocodile]] ||Northern regions of Australia |- |[[File:Crocodylus mindorensis Köln Zoo 31122014 1.jpg|120px]] ||''Crocodylus mindorensis'' || [[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt]], 1935 || [[Philippine crocodile]] ||Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park within the Luzon rainforest, San Mariano, Isabela, Dalupiri island in the Babuyan Islands, Abra (province) in Luzon and the Ligawasan Marsh, Lake Sebu in South Cotabato, Pulangi River in Bukidnon, and possibly in the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Mindanao |- |[[File:Crocodylus moreletii - Tiergarten Schönbrunn 2.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus moreletii '' || ([[Auguste Duméril|A. H. A. Duméril]] & [[Gabriel Bibron|Bibron]], 1851) || [[Morelet's crocodile]] or Mexican crocodile ||Mexico, Belize and Guatemala |- |[[File:Crocodylus - Crocodile - Krokodil - 02.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus niloticus''|| [[Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti|Laurenti]], 1768 || [[Nile crocodile]] or African crocodile, (the subspecies found in Madagascar, ''C. n. madagascariensis'', is sometimes called the black crocodile) || Israel and Syria (historically), Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Angola, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Botswana, and Cameroon |- |[[File:Neuguinea-krokodil-0272.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus novaeguineae''|| Schmidt, 1928 || [[New Guinea crocodile]] ||northern New Guinea |- |[[File:Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) from Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary JEG4362.JPG|120px]] || ''Crocodylus palustris''|| ([[René Primevère Lesson|Lesson]], 1831) || [[Mugger crocodile]], marsh crocodile, or Indian crocodile ||southern Iran, southern Pakistan, southern Nepal, India, Sri Lanka |- |[[File:Saltwater Croc from Sundarbans India.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus porosus ''|| [[Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider|Schneider]], 1801 || [[Saltwater crocodile]] or estuarine crocodile ||Eastern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Northern Australia |- |[[File:CubanCrocodile 001.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus rhombifer ''|| (Cuvier, 1807) || [[Cuban crocodile]] || Cuba |- |[[File:Crocodylus siamensis (head, mouth open, in zoo).jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus siamensis''|| Schneider, 1801 || [[Siamese crocodile]] ||Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. |- |[[File:Kachikally-crocodile-pool-manify.jpg|120px]] || ''Crocodylus suchus''|| [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|Geoffroy]], 1807 || [[West African crocodile]] or desert crocodile || Mauritania, Benin, Liberia, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gabon, Togo, Ivory Coast and Republic of Congo |- | || ''[[Crocodylus raninus]]'' (Considered to be a synonym of ''Crocodylus porosus''; its status remains unclear).<ref>{{EMBL species|genus=Crocodylus|species=porosus}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref>|| [[Salomon Müller|S. Müller]] & [[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1844 || [[Borneo crocodile]] |Borneo |- |}
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