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Crocodylus siamensis SCHNEIDER, 1801

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Higher TaxaCrocodylidae (Crocodylia, crocodiles)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Siamese crocodile
G: Siamkrokodil 
SynonymCrocodylus siamensis SCHNEIDER 1801
Crocodilus galeatus CUVIER 1807: 51
Crocodilus galeatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 113
Crocodilus siamensis — DE ROOIJ 1915: 338
Crocodylus siamensis — KING & BURKE 1989
Crocodylus siamensis — COX et al. 1998: 123
Crocodylus siamensis — NGUYEN et al. 2009 
DistributionCambodia, Indonesia (including Borneo and possibly Java), Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Myanmar (= Burma).

Type locality: "Siam" (=Thailand), corrected to “Louvo, Siam (= Ayutthaya, Thailand” by ROSS et al. 1995.  
Reproductionoviparous. Temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) fide Cornejo-Páramo et al. 2020 (and references therein). 
TypesLectotype: iconotype, “the specimen whose head is figured on plate I of the 1688 Description anatomique...”, a publication by Anonymous 1688 and that is cited with a different title in ROSS et al. 1995 who also made this designation. paralectotypes: RMNH 21695 (skin), RMNH.RENA.7939 (skull, same specimen as 21695), SMF 8090 from Java (fide Ross 1992) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (816 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentConservation: The species may, however, have disappeared in many of the listed areas (e.g. Malaysia and Indonesia).

Types: not located, but illustrations in Du Vernay 1733.

Hybridization: Crocodylus niloticus appears to hybridize with C. siamensis and C. porosus, at least in captivity. C. porosus also hybridizes with C. siamensis (Wei et al. 2022). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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