#1735 · 🦎 reptiles

Morelet's Crocodile

🇳🇱 Bultkrokodil ·Crocodylus moreletii

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Erick Sosa R. · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Creed Clayton · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Luis Enrique Hernández Sánchez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Luis enrique Ramirez Bojorges · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Morelet's crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) , also known as the Mexican crocodile , is a modest-sized crocodilian found only in fresh waters of the Atlantic regions of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. 8 ft) in length. It is a Least Concern species.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,812iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,812 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Auguste Duméril in 1851 (175 years ago).