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Mecistops cataphractus (CUVIER, 1825)

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Higher TaxaCrocodylidae (Crocodylia, crocodiles) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: African slender-snouted crocodile
G: Panzerkrokodil 
SynonymCrocodylus cataphractus CUVIER 1825: 58
Crocodilus leptorhynchus BENNETT 1835: 129
Crocodilus cataphractus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 126
Mecistops bennettii GRAY 1844: 57
Crocodilus cataphractus — FALCONER 1846: 362
Crocodylus cataphractus — SCHMIDT 1919: 417
Crocodylus cataphractus — KING & BURKE 1989
Mecistops cataphractus — SCHMITZ et al. 2003
Mecistops cataphractus — MCALILEY et al. 2006 
DistributionAngola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Zaire, Zambia

Type locality: “Senegal und Ganges” (fide Wermuth & Mertens 1977: 142); restricted to "Senegal-Fluss," by Fuchs, Mertens, and Wermuth 1974 Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well. We are working on it.
 
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: RCSM 710 
CommentMook (1921), Wermuth (1953), and Wermuth and Mertens (1961: 359, 361), Wermuth and Fuchs 1983, incorrectly identified and illustrated a skull of C. cataphractus as belonging to C. intermedius (after King & Burke 1989).

SCHMITZ et al. (2003) found that high genetic differentiation to Osteolaemus (> 7.8%) shows that “C.” cataphractus is not a member of the genus Osteolaemus but probably deserves generic rank. Mecistops Gray 1844 was suggested as available generic name.

Synonymy: partly after WERMUTH & MERTENS 1977: 142.

Type species: Mecistops bennettii GRAY 1844 is the type species of the genus Mecistops GRAY 1844: 57. 
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