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    Species Accepted

    Mecistops leptorhynchus (Bennett, 1835)

    Central African false gharial
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Mecistops

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Central African false gharial English
      Central African slender-snouted crocodile English
      Centralafrikansk Panserkrokodille Danish
      Coccodrillo dal muso stretto centrafricano Italian
      Cocodrilo africano de hocico delgado central Spanish
      Crocodilo-de-focinho-delgado-centro-africano Portuguese
      Faux gavial d'Afrique Centrale French
      Zentralafrikanisches Panzerkrokodil German
      faux gavial centrafricain
      faux gavial d’Afrique Centrale

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Bennett, E. T. (1835) Crocodilus leptorhynchus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3, 128 - 132.
      Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke, Davies, & John. (2021). Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 Pp., ISBN 9781775847373.
      PAN, TAO; JIA-SHUN MIAO, HUA-BIN ZHANG, PENG YAN, PING-SHIN LEE, XIN-YUE JIANG, JIA-HUI OUYANG, YOU-PENG DENG, BAO-WEI ZHANG & XIAO-BING WU. (2021). Near-complete phylogeny of extant Crocodylia (Reptilia) using mitogenome-based data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(4): 1075–1089.
      de Souza, M. T., Zocca, C., & Barreto-Lima, A. F. (2024). Global Distribution of Crocodilians Revealed by Citizen Scientists. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 19(3), 497-506.
      Bennett, E. T. (1835). Crocodilus leptorhynchus. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1835: 128-132.
      SHIRLEY, MATTHEW H.; AMANDA N. CARR, JENNIFER H. NESTLER, KENT A. VLIET, CHRISTOPHER A. BROCHU. (2018). Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844). Zootaxa 4504 (2): 151-193.
      Pauwels OSG, Morelle S, Albert J-L, Carlino P, Rahola N, Trape J-F. (2019). New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 143–161 (E174).
      Fisher, Ian J.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Paul S. Freed & Mariana P. Marques. (2025). Reptiles and Amphibians of Cameroon (Central Africa) at the Collection of the Section of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Part I - Chelonians, Crocodylians, and Lizards. Annals of Carnegie Museum Dec 2025 Vol. 91, No. 3: 223-258.
      Pauwels, Olivier S. G.; César María Aguilar-Gómez , Marius Burger , Zarek S. Cockar , Beki Henderson , Anne-Hélène Paradis , Antonius E. Ruizendaal , Iván A. Sánchez and Ryan van Huyssteen. (2025). Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica XX. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 60(5):57-65.
      SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M., & DE LA RIVA, I. (2022). Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197.

      Citation

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