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Reptiles include all three species of African crocodile, Nile Crocodylus niloticus (90%), slender-snouted Crocodylus cataphractus (9%), and dwarf Osteolaemus tetraspis (VU, 1%).
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The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) and the slender-snouted crocodile (C. cataphractus) are also common in certain floodplains of the ecoregion.
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And we were able to dig up, when we got old enough, fossils such as this, a slender-snouted crocodile, and we dug up giant tortoises, and elephants and things like that.
Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins Louise Leakey 2008
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And we were able to dig up, when we got old enough, fossils such as this, a slender-snouted crocodile, and we dug up giant tortoises, and elephants and things like that.
Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins Louise Leakey 2008
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The African slender-snouted crocodile Crocodylus cataphractus might also be an osteolaemine, a view that would be in agreement with data suggesting that it needs removing from Crocodylus (the old generic name Mecistops Gray, 1844 is available: see McAliley et al. 2006), and additional fossil African crocodylids also seem to belong to this group.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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It is the habitat of a very diverse flora and fauna and many endemic endangered species, such as the bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), for which it was partly founded to protect, the Congo peacock, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted crocodile.
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Reptiles include African slender-snouted crocodile Crocodylus cataphractus.
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Two crocodiles are found: the African slender-snouted crocodile Crocodylus cataphactus, and the African dwarf crocodile Osteolaemus tetraspis.
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It is isolated in the center of the Congo river basin, accessible chiefly by water or air and is the habitat of many endemic endangered species, notably the bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), the Zaire peafowl, the forest elephant and the African slender-snouted crocodile.
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The African slender-snouted crocodile Crocodylus cataphractus might also be an osteolaemine, a view that would be in agreement with data suggesting that it needs removing from Crocodylus (the old generic name Mecistops Gray, 1844 is available: see McAliley et al. 2006), and additional fossil African crocodylids also seem to belong to this group.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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