- American alligator - Wikipedia
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a common alligator or simply gator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States It is one of the two extant species in the genus Alligator, and is larger than the only other living alligator species, the Chinese alligator
- Alligator - Wikipedia
An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae in the order Crocodilia The two extant species are the American alligator ( A mississippiensis ) and the Chinese alligator ( A sinensis )
- American alligator | Diet, Habitat, Range, Facts | Britannica
The American alligator is a species of alligator inhabiting freshwater rivers, lakes, and swamps and brackish waters in the Southern United States and northeastern Mexico It is one of the best-known living crocodilians
- Alligator - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alligator is a genus in the order Crocodilia There are two living species: the American alligator and the smaller Chinese alligator Together with the caimans, the gharials, and the crocodiles, they make up the order Crocodilia The first alligators existed about 37 million years ago [1] However, older species of alligators have become extinct
- Alligatoridae - Wikipedia
The modern American alligator is well represented in the fossil record of the Pleistocene [9] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s [10] The full genome, published in 2014, suggests that the alligator evolved much more slowly than mammals and birds [11]
- Alligatoroidea - Wikipedia
Cladistically, Alligatoroidea is defined as Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator) and all crocodylians more closely related to A mississippiensis than to either Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) or Gavialis gangeticus (the gharial) [8]
- American Alligator | National Geographic
The American alligator is a rare success story of an endangered animal not only saved from extinction but now thriving State and federal protections, habitat preservation efforts, and reduced
- American crocodile - Wikipedia
American crocodiles coexist with the American alligator in Florida, and with the smaller spectacled caiman within Central America and South America The IUCN lists the American crocodile as vulnerable, and is a federally threatened, flagship species and ecological indicator within the Florida Everglades World Heritage Site [13]
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