Crocodilians of
Mexico  

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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.
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Crocodilians (Crocodylia)
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Species
References
 Family Alligatoridae (Alligators and Caimans)
Genus Caiman (Typical Caimans)
 
Caiman crocodilus

Common Caiman

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Busack & Pandya 2001 Flores-Villela 1993 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wermuth & Mertens 1977 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 Family Crocodylidae (Crocodiles)
Genus Crocodylus (Typical Crocodiles)
 
Crocodylus acutus

American Crocodile

Aguilar-Olguin, Rivera-Rodriguez, Hernandez-Hurtado, Gonzalez-Trujillo & Ramirez-Martinez 2020 Alvarado-Diaz, Suazo-Ortuno, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Barragan-Vazquez, Rios-Rodas, Fucsko, Porras, Mata-Silva, Rocha, DeSantis, Garcia-Padilla, Johnson & Wilson 2022 Casas-Andreu & Mendez-de la Cruz 1991 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Cruz-Saenz, Guerrero-Vazquez, Lazcano & Tellez-Lopez 2009 Cruz-Saenz, Munoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1958 Duellman 1965 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Hernandez-Ordonez, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martinez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Lee 1980 Lee 1996 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Pierce & Painter 2020 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Loc-Barragan & Lazcano 2018 Loc-Barragan, Lazcano & Woolrich-Pina 2018 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 Nolasco-Luna, Barraza-Soltero, Lopez-Montes, Moreno-Lopez & Escobedo-Galvan 2022 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Perez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Pena 2000 Reyes-Velasco, Grunwald, Jones & Ahumada-Carrillo 2020 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Pina, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragan, Ramirez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel 1959 Zweifel 1960
 
Crocodylus moreletii

Central American Crocodile

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Barragan-Vazquez, Rios-Rodas, Fucsko, Porras, Mata-Silva, Rocha, DeSantis, Garcia-Padilla, Johnson & Wilson 2022 Cabrera-Hernandez, Toledo Gonzalez & Enriquez Robles 2018 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Contreras-Lozano, Lazcano, Garcia-Salas & Contreras-Balderas 2013 Duellman 1965 Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Flores-Villela 1993 Garcia-Padilla & Mata-Silva 2014 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernandez-Ordonez, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martinez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Lazcano, Farr, Lavin-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narvaez-Torres & Chaves-Cisneros 2009 Lee 1980 Lee 1996 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Pina 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Lopez-Luna, Hidalgo-Mihart & Aguirre-Leon 2011 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 Mejenes-Lopez & Hernandez-Bautista 2013 Moral-Flores, Vazquez-Nunez & Hernandez-Arellano 2019 Perez-Higareda 1978 Perez-Higareda 1979 Perez-Higareda 1980 Ramirez-Bautista, Hernandez-Salinas, Cruz-Elizalde, Berriozabal-Islas, Moreno-Lara, DeSantis, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2020 Ross 1987 Shreve 1957 Taylor 1953 Teran-Juarez, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Torres-Hernandez, Ramirez-Bautista, Cruz-Elizalde, Hernandez-Salinas, Berriozabal-Islas, DeSantis, Johnson, Rocha, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Fucsko & Wilson 2021 Trutnau & Sommerlad 2006 Wermuth & Mertens 1977 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013