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raninus specimens can reliably be distinguished both from saltwater and Siamese crocodiles ( C. However, based largely on morphological variability, it is thought possible that the taxon C. Ĭurrently, the saltwater crocodile is considered a monotypic species. However, Wells and Wellington's assertion that the Australian saltwater crocodiles may be distinctive enough from northern Asian saltwater crocodiles to warrant subspecies status, as could raninus from other Asian saltwater crocodiles, has been considered to possibly bear validity. This purported species was later considered to be a misinterpretation of the physiological changes that very large male crocodiles undergo. Ross Wellington in 1985 was a large-bodied, relatively large-headed and short-tailed crocodile specimen collected in 1979 in the Finnis River, Northern Territory. Crocodylus pethericki proposed by Richard Wells and C.Crocodylus porosus australis proposed by Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala in 1953 was a specimen from Australia.Crocodilus biporcatus raninus proposed by Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel in 1844 was a crocodile from Borneo.

Crocodilus biporcatus proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1807 were 23 saltwater crocodile specimens from India, Java and Timor.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, several saltwater crocodile specimens were described with the following names: Sweetheart, a saltwater crocodile from Finnis River in northern Australia proposed as Crocodilus pethericki in 1985Ĭrocodilus porosus was the scientific name proposed by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider who described a zoological specimen in 1801. They will prey on almost any animal that enters their territory, including other predators such as sharks, varieties of freshwater and saltwater fish including pelagic species, invertebrates such as crustaceans, various amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans. A large and opportunistic hypercarnivorous apex predator, they ambush most of their prey and then drown or swallow it whole. It is also called the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile, and, informally, the saltie. Females are much smaller and rarely surpass 3 m (10 ft). The saltwater crocodile is considered to be the largest living reptile.

BURLY MEN AT SEA CROCODILE BUG SKIN

It was hunted for its skin throughout its range up to the 1970s, and is threatened by illegal killing and habitat loss.

It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996. The saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. Range of the saltwater crocodile in black