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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. www.repfocus.dk (Compilation date: 14th April, 2023).

Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Crocodilians (Crocodylia)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Alligatoridae (Alligators and Caimans) Genus Caiman (Typical Caimans)   Caiman crocodilus Common Caiman Araujo, Ribeiro, Andrade, Pereira, Guzzi & Avila 2020 Avila & Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011 Avila-Pires 2005 Avila-Pires, Hoogmoed & Rocha 2010 Bernarde, Albuquerque, Miranda & Turci 2013 Bernarde, Machado & Turci 2011 Borges-Nojosa & Cascon 2005 Busack & Pandya 2001 Cabral, Mattos & Rosas 2008 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Dornas, Silva, Silva & Malvasio 2021 Fernandes-Ferreira, Mendonca, Cruz, Borges-Nojosa & Alves 2013 Franca, Freitas, Ramalho & Bernarde 2017 Freitas, Mendes Venancio, Abegg, Santos Azevedo, Oliveira Pereira, Pinheiro Zanotti, Veloso, Schwarzbach, Oliveira e Sousa, Cruz-da-Silva, Goncalves de Amorim & Barbosa de Moura 2020 Freitas, Vieira, Entiauspe-Neto, Oliveira-e-Sousa, Farias, Sousa & Moura 2017 King & Burke 1989 Loebmann & Haddad 2010 Magnusson, Silva & Lima 1987 Miranda, Costa & Rocha 2012 Miranda, Venancio & Albuquerque 2014 Muller 1976 Nascimento, Avila-Pires, Santos & Lima 1991 Olmos & Barbosa-Souza 1991 O'Shea 1990 Pantoja & Fraga 2012 Pedroso Santos, Ribeiro Sanches & Costa-Campos 2019 Roberto & Loebmann 2016 Rodrigues-Franca & Mendes Venancio 2010 Santos Azevedo, Oliveira & Costa 2021 Silva, Rocha & Nogueira-Paranhos 2016 Silveira, Magnusson & Campos 1997 Vechio, Recoder, Rodrigues & Zaher 2013   Caiman latirostris Broad-snouted Caiman Almeida-Gomes, Siqueira, Borges-Junior, Vrcibradic, Fusinatto & Rocha 2014 Almeida-Gomes, Siquiera, Borges-Junior, Vrcibradic, Fusinatto & Rocha 2014 Bertoluci, Canelas, Eisemberg, Palmuti & Montingelli 2009 Bornschein, Belmonte-Lopes, Reinert & Morato 2012 Castro & Teixeira 2007 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Duarte Rocha, Silva Telles, Vrcibradic & Nogueira-Costa 2018 Entiauspe-Neto, Perleberg & Freitas 2016 Ferreira, Terra, Piatti, Delatorre, Strussmann, Beda, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Landgref-Filho, Aoki, Campos, Souza, Avila, Duleba, Martins, Rita & Albuquerque 2017 Fusco-Costa, Castellani & Tomas 2008 King & Burke 1989 Kunz, Ghizoni, Santos & Hartmann 2007 Lema 1994 Marques, Pereira, Barbo, Germano & Sawaya 2009 Marquez & Sazima 2004 Melo, Moura, Freitas, Andrade, Casal, Abegg & Kokubum 2018 Mesquita, Alves, Pedro, Laranjeiras, Caldas, Pedrosa, Rodrigues, Drummond, Cavalcanti, Wachlevski, Nogueira-Costa, Franca & Franca 2018 Oliveira Lima, Andrade, Lima da Silva & Reis Dias 2022 Oliveira, Gonzalez, Passos, Vrcibradic & Rocha 2020 Oliveira, Muniz & Moura 2016 Pachaly, Barbosa-Marques, Silva & Castellano-Margarido 2005 Pereira-Ribeiro, Ferreguetti, Bergallo & Rocha 2022 Quintela, Medvedovsky, Ibarra, Neves & Figueiredo 2011 Rocha, Bergallo, Pombal, Geise, Sluys, Fernandes & Caramaschi 2004 Ruschi 1966 Salles & Silva-Soares 2010 Santana, Vieira, Pereira-Filho, Delfim, Lima & Vieira 2008 Silva, Silva, Sena & Nascimento 2006 Silva-Soares, Ferreira, Salles & Rocha 2011 Souza & Freitas 1998 Souza Filho & Verrastro 2012 Uetanabaro, Souza, Filho, Beda & Brandao 2007 Wermuth & Mertens 1977 Zaher, Barbo, Martinez, Nogueira, Rodrigues & Sawaya 2011   Caiman yacare Paraguayan Caiman Arruda 2008 Busack & Pandya 2001 Cavalheri, Siqueira, Brasil-Godinho, Fadel, Trevine, Sartori & Santana 2021 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Ferreira, Terra, Piatti, Delatorre, Strussmann, Beda, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Landgref-Filho, Aoki, Campos, Souza, Avila, Duleba, Martins, Rita & Albuquerque 2017 King & Burke 1989 Souza, Uetanabaro, Landgref-Filho, Piatti & Prado 2010 Strussmann, Almeida-Prado, Uetanabaro & Ferreira 2000 Trutnau & Sommerlad 2006 Wermuth & Mertens 1977 Zaher, Barbo, Martinez, Nogueira, Rodrigues & Sawaya 2011 Genus Melanosuchus (Black Caiman)   Melanosuchus niger Black Caiman Avila-Pires 2005 Bernarde, Machado & Turci 2011 Cabral, Mattos & Rosas 2008 Costa Pereira & Malvasio 2014 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Dias-Lima 2008 Dornas, Silva, Silva & Malvasio 2021 King & Burke 1989 Magnusson, Silva & Lima 1987 Medem 1963 Ministry of Environment [Brasilia] 2010 Muller 1976 Nascimento, Avila-Pires, Santos & Lima 1991 O'Shea 1990 Pantoja & Fraga 2012 Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM HERR 015694) Plotkin, Medem, Mittermeier & Constable 1983 Silveira, Magnusson & Campos 1997 Vasquez 1991 Wermuth & Mertens 1977 Genus Paleosuchus (Dwarf Caimans)   Paleosuchus palpebrosus Cayenne Dwarf Caiman Alves Benicio, Mesquita, Cavalcante & Fonseca 2015 Araujo, Ribeiro, Andrade, Pereira, Guzzi & Avila 2020 Avila-Pires 2005 Bernarde, Machado & Turci 2011 Campos & Magnusson 2016 Campos & Sanaiotti 2006 Campos, Magnusson & Marques 2013 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Dias-Lima 2008 Dornas, Silva, Silva & Malvasio 2021 Fernandes-Ferreira, Mendonca, Cruz, Borges-Nojosa & Alves 2013 Ferreira, Sturaro & Peloso 2017 Ferreira, Terra, Piatti, Delatorre, Strussmann, Beda, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Landgref-Filho, Aoki, Campos, Souza, Avila, Duleba, Martins, Rita & Albuquerque 2017 Franca, Freitas, Ramalho & Bernarde 2017 Freitas, Mendes Venancio, Abegg, Santos Azevedo, Oliveira Pereira, Pinheiro Zanotti, Veloso, Schwarzbach, Oliveira e Sousa, Cruz-da-Silva, Goncalves de Amorim & Barbosa de Moura 2020 King & Burke 1989 Lima, Lima & Borges-Nojosa 2011 Lopes Santos, Pereira de Andrade, Victor-Junior & Vaz-Silva 2014 Madella-Auricchio, Auricchio & Soares 2017 Magnusson 1992 Magnusson, Silva & Lima 1987 Melo, Moura, Freitas, Andrade, Casal, Abegg & Kokubum 2018 Mesquita, Alves, Pedro, Laranjeiras, Caldas, Pedrosa, Rodrigues, Drummond, Cavalcanti, Wachlevski, Nogueira-Costa, Franca & Franca 2018 Miranda, Venancio & Albuquerque 2014 Muniz, Senna Bittencourt, Pires Farias, Hrbek & Campos 2015 Nascimento, Avila-Pires, Santos & Lima 1991 Oliveira Neves, Yves, Almeida Pereira, Alves, Bonfim Vasques, Teixeira Coelho & Santos Silva 2019 Recoder, Junior, Camacho, Nunes, Mott, Valdujo, Ghellere, Nogueira & Rodrigues 2011 Roberto & Loebmann 2016 Rodrigues-Franca & Mendes Venancio 2010 Santana, Vieira, Pereira-Filho, Delfim, Lima & Vieira 2008 Silva, Cintra, Silva, Costa, Amaral-Souza, Pacheco & Goncalves 2009 Vaz-Silva, Guimaraes-Guedes, Azevedo-Silva, Gontijo, Barbosa, Aloisio & Oliveira 2007 Zaher, Barbo, Martinez, Nogueira, Rodrigues & Sawaya 2011   Paleosuchus trigonatus Northwestern Dwarf Caiman Avila & Kawashita-Ribeiro 2011 Avila-Pires 2005 Avila-Pires, Hoogmoed & Rocha 2010 Bernardo, Guerra-Fuentes, Matiazzi & Zaher 2012 Campos & Magnusson 2016 Campos, Muniz & Magnusson 2017 Costa, Guedes & Bernils 2021 Costa-Campos, Ribeiro Sanches, Pedroso-Santos, Figueiredo, Tavares-Pinheiro & Almeida-Santos 2021 Dias-Lima 2008 [as "cf. trigonatus"] Fonseca, Silva, Abegg, Rosa & Bernarde 2019 Franca, Freitas, Ramalho & Bernarde 2017 Freitas, Mendes Venancio, Abegg, Santos Azevedo, Oliveira Pereira, Pinheiro Zanotti, Veloso, Schwarzbach, Oliveira e Sousa, Cruz-da-Silva, Goncalves de Amorim & Barbosa de Moura 2020 Freitas, Vieira, Entiauspe-Neto, Oliveira-e-Sousa, Farias, Sousa & Moura 2017 King & Burke 1989 Magnusson & Lima 1991 Magnusson, Lima & Sampaio 1985 Magnusson, Silva & Lima 1987 Melo-Sampaio, Silva, Matos, Matos & Acosta 2013 Mendes-Pinto & Souza 2011 Moraes, Almeida, Fraga, Rojas, Pirani, Silva, Carvalho, Gordo & Werneck 2017 Muniz, Senna Bittencourt, Pires Farias, Hrbek & Campos 2015 Nascimento, Avila-Pires, Santos & Lima 1991