Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Image: Crocodylus cataphractus faux gavial d'Afrique 2
Image: Mecistops leptorhynchus 2009
Slender-snouted crocodiles bear a superficial resemblance to gharials, which also have a very slender snout
Image: Faux Gavial (9398288667)
Crocodiles or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans, the gharial and false gharial among other extinct taxa.
Image: Nile crocodile head
Image: Pangil Crocodile Park Davao City
Crocodile farming in Australia
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