#1687 · 🦎 reptiles

Nile Crocodile

🇳🇱 Nijlkrokodil ·Crocodylus niloticus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The Nile crocodile ( Crocodylus niloticus ) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second largest extant reptile in the world, after the saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ). The Nile crocodile is quite widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the central, eastern, and southern regions of the continent and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers and marshlands. Although capable of living in saline environments, this...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,102iNaturalist 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.
11,102 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768 (258 years ago).