Crocodilian genera are the genera of the order Crocodylia. Animal Diversity Web lists nine for the order, Alligator, Caiman, Crocodylus, Gavialis, Mecistops, Melanosuchus, Osteolaemus, Paleosuchus and Tomistoma. GBIF counts about 61 descendant taxa in Crocodylus, 22 in Caiman, 13 in Tomistoma and 5 in Alligator. The backbone also carries further genera in these families, among them Deinosuchus, Purussaurus and Diplocynodon, so its tally is larger than the nine of the older list.
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Animal Diversity Web: Crocodylidae
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Genus Alligator Genus Caiman Genus Crocodylus
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Alligatoridae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Alligatoridae
"canonicalName":"Melanosuchus","vernacularName":"black caiman","authorship":"Gray, 1862","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 10","numDescendants":4
Children of Alligatoridae: Alligator
"canonicalName":"Alligator","vernacularName":"Alligators","authorship":"Cuvier, 1807","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. , Paris, 10 : 25","numDescendants":5
Children of Alligatoridae: Caiman
"canonicalName":"Caiman","vernacularName":"caiman","authorship":"Spix, 1825","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Spix, J. B. von. (1825). Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspicius Maximiliani Josephi I Bavariae Regis suscepto collegit et descripsit Dr. J. B. de Spix. Lipsiae: T. O. Weigel; F. S. Hübschmanni, Monachii, 26 pp.","numDescendants":22
Children of Alligatoridae: Paleosuchus
"canonicalName":"Paleosuchus","vernacularName":"caiman","authorship":"Gray, 1862","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 10","numDescendants":4
Children of Alligatoridae: Purussaurus
"canonicalName":"Purussaurus","authorship":"Rodrigues, 1892","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Vellosia, ed. 2, 2","numDescendants":3
Children of Alligatoridae: Diplocynodon
"canonicalName":"Diplocynodon","authorship":"Pomel, 1847","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bull. Soc. Géol. France (2) 4","numDescendants":12
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Crocodylidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Crocodylidae
"canonicalName":"Osteolaemus","vernacularName":"Dwarf Crocodiles","authorship":"Cope, 1861","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Cope, E. D. (1861). Recent species of Emydosaurian reptiles represented in the Museum of the Academy. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 1860: 549-551.","numDescendants":6
Children of Crocodylidae: Crocodylus
"canonicalName":"Crocodylus","vernacularName":"crocodile","authorship":"Laurenti, 1768","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Laurenti, Joseph N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum. Joan Thomae, Viennae.: 1-214; Pls. 1-5.","numDescendants":61
Children of Crocodylidae: Mecistops
"canonicalName":"Mecistops","vernacularName":"African Gavial","authorship":"Gray, 1844","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gray, John Edward, 1844: null. Catalogue of the tortoises, crocodiles, and amphisbaenians, in the collection of the British Museum. vii + 80.","numDescendants":8
Children of Crocodylidae: Tomistoma
"canonicalName":"Tomistoma","vernacularName":"false gharial","authorship":"Müller, 1846","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Arch. Naturgesch., 12 (1)","numDescendants":13
Children of Crocodylidae: Deinosuchus
"canonicalName":"Deinosuchus","authorship":"Holland, 1909","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ann. Carnegie Mus., 6","numDescendants":4
View the Source Wikipedia: Crocodylus
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Crocodylus is a genus of true crocodiles in the family Crocodylidae.
Wikipedia: Mecistops
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Mecistops is a genus of crocodiles, the slender-snouted crocodiles, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Wikipedia: Osteolaemus
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Osteolaemus (from Ancient Greek όστεον (ósteon), meaning "bone", and λαιμός (laimós), meaning "throat") is a genus of crocodiles.
Wikipedia: Alligator
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An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae in the order Crocodilia.
Wikipedia: Caiman
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A caiman (), also spelled cayman (from Taíno kaiman), is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators.
Wikipedia: Melanosuchus
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Melanosuchus, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas), meaning "black", and σούχος (soúkhos), meaning "crocodile", is a genus of caiman.
Wikipedia: Paleosuchus
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Paleosuchus (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós), meaning "old", and Σοῦχος (Soûkhos), meaning "Sobek") is a South American genus of reptiles in the subfamily Caimaninae of the family Alligatoridae.
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