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Distribution:- Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Now extinct in Israel, and the Comoros Islands
Comments:- May grow to to over 16 ft (5m) Maximum recorded size is 6.45 m (21.2 ft)
Subspecies:-
C. n. africanus (East African Nile crocodile)
C. n. chamses (West African Nile crocodile)
C. n. corviei (South African Nile crocodile)
C. n. madagascariensis(Malagasy Nile crocodile)
C. n. niloticus (Ethiopian Nile crocodile)
C. n. pauciscutatus (Kenyan Nile crocodile)
C. n. suchus (Central African Nile crocodile)
Note that the status of the above subspecies is uncertain.
Crocodiles and Alligators of the World
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