#1689 · 🦎 reptiles

Saltwater Crocodile

🇳🇱 Zeekrokodil ·Crocodylus porosus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Shubhra Sau · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Orlando Bonney · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Lorenzo Zambetti · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
6. Mary River NT:© smoghead · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Lower Daintree QLD 4873, Australia:© David White · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Com Lautém, Lautém, East Timor:© Jafet Potenzo Lopes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Kakadu NT 0822, Australia:© Kye Turnbull · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Sailendra Sarai, Odisha, India:© Karim Imran · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ), also known as the estuarine crocodile , Indo-Pacific crocodile , marine crocodile , sea crocodile or informally as saltie , is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world. 0 ft) in length. 7 ft) weighing 1,000 to 1,200 kg (2,200–2,600 lb)....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,936iNaturalist 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.
10,936 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1801 (225 years ago).