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Crocodylus siamensis (Siamese crocodile)

Synonyms: Crocodilus galeatus; Crocodylus ossifragus

Wikipedia Abstract

Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) is a small to medium-sized freshwater crocodile native to Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam. The species is critically endangered and already extirpated from many regions. Its other common names include: Siamese freshwater crocodile, Singapore small-grain, cocodrilo de Siam, crocodile du Siam, buaja, buaya kodok, chorakhe nam chuet, and soft-belly.
View Wikipedia Record: Crocodylus siamensis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Crocodylus siamensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  93.697 lbs (42.50 kg)
Female Weight [1]  93.697 lbs (42.50 kg)
Egg Length [1]  3.071 inches (78 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.89 inches (48 mm)
Emoji [2]  crocodile
Gestation [3]  80 days
Litter Size [1]  27
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  22 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Emoji by Twitter is licensed under CC BY 4.0
3Cox, JH, Frazier, R & Maturbongs, R (1993). Freshwater crocodilians of Kalimantan (Indonesia, Borneo). Copeia 1993(2): 564-566
4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0