Name - Mecistops cataphractus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1591208 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Crocodylus cataphractus

• Mecistops cataphractus (Cuv.)

• Mecistops cataphractus (Cuvier 1824)

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Recent Publications

• HEALTH SURVEY INCLUDING SELECTED BLOOD PARAMETERS IN THE AFRICAN SLENDER SNOUTED CROCODILE (MECISTOPS CATAPHRACTUS) AT THE ABIDJAN ZOO IN COTE D'IVOIRE.
• Did Late Pleistocene climate change result in parallel genetic structure and demographic bottlenecks in sympatric Central African crocodiles, Mecistops and Osteolaemus?
• Shared species of crocodilian trypanosomes carried by tabanid flies in Africa and South America, including the description of a new species from caimans, Trypanosoma kaiowa n. sp.
• Use of continuous cranial shape variation in the identification of divergent crocodile species of the genus Mecistops.
• Detectability and impact of repetitive surveys on threatened West African crocodylians.

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