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Recovery Plan Status: Revision (May 18, 1999)

Geographic Coverage: Rangewide

Description

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Federal Status: Endangered (Sept. 25, 1975)

Critical Habitat: Designated (December 1979)

Florida Status: Endangered

Figure 1. Florida distribution of the Americancrocodile; this species is only found in mangrovehabitats within the shaded counties.

American CrocodileCrocodylus acutus

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Taxonomy

Distribution

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Habitat

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American crocodile. Original photograph by Paul Moler.

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Critical Habitat

Behavior

Reproduction

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Figure 2. Americancrocodile critical

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Foraging

Relationship to Other Species

Status and Trends

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Management

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Literature Cited

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Species-level Recovery Actions

Recovery for theAmerican CrocodileCrocodylus acutus

Recovery Objective: R ECLASSIFY

Recovery Criteria

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Habitat-level Recovery Actions

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