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The New Guinea crocodile was first described by the American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt in 1928 as Crocodylus novaeguineae. [5] At one time it was thought that there were two subspecies, C. n. novaeguineae, the New Guinea crocodile native to Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea, and C. n. mindorensis, the Philippine crocodile, native to several islands including Busuanga, Luzon ...
The two species likely diverged within the last 3-8 million years, when the uplift of the New Guinea highlands created a barrier that divided them into separate populations. Despite the common ancestry of the two species, genetic analysis indicates that the New Guinea crocodile may be more closely related to the putative Borneo crocodile ( C ...
Hall's New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus halli) The island of New Guinea, south of the New Guinea Highlands: A smaller species that closely resembles and was long classified under the New Guinea crocodile, which it is now considered to be genetically distinct from. It lives south of the mountain barrier that divides the two species' ranges.
The New Guinea crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae) ... Generally, the adult male Nile crocodile is between 3.5 and 5 m (11 ft 6 in and 16 ft 5 in) in length and ...
The record size for a crocodile from Papua New Guinea to be considered authentic by Guinness was a 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) specimen shot by Herb Schweighofer in May 1966 along the northeastern coast. This specimen had a belly girth of 2.74 m (9 ft 0 in).
New Guinea Crocodile Lizard. You’ll have to visit the rainforests of New Guinea to run into one of these lizards. They have a crocodile-like appearance and a long tail. 89. Nile Hippopotamus
New Guinea crocodile; S. Saltwater crocodile This page was last edited on 11 May 2018, at 02:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
New Guinea crocodile: northern New Guinea Crocodylus palustris (Lesson, 1831) Mugger crocodile, marsh crocodile, or Indian crocodile: southern Iran, southern Pakistan, southern Nepal, India, Sri Lanka Crocodylus porosus : Schneider, 1801: Saltwater crocodile or estuarine crocodile: Eastern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Northern Australia