

CREDIT: LUTH ER C. GOLDMAN 



AMERICAN ALLIGATOR 



Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin) 



KINGDOM Animalia 



CLASS Reptilia 



ORDER Crocodylia 



FAMILY Alligatoridae 



OTHER COMMON 



NAMES alligator, gator 



DATE 



Entered into SWIS to be determined 



Updates 21 August 1978. 



LEGAL STATUS 



Federal: Endangered (40 FR 44418, 26 Septem- 

 ber 1975), wherever found in wild ex- 

 cept where threatened (42 FR 2076, 

 10 January 1977; 44 FR 37132, 25 

 June 1979; 44 FR 49084, 12 October 

 1979) or protected by Similarity of Ap- 

 pearance (40 FR 44418, 26 September 

 1975; 44 FR 37132, 25 June 1979; 44 

 FR 59084, 12 October 1979). 



Threatened (42 FR 2076, 10 January 

 1977; 44 FR 37132, 25 June 1979; 

 44 FR 59084, 12 October 1979) in 

 Florida and along the southern Coastal 

 Plain within the following boundaries: 

 from Winyah Bay near Georgetown, 

 S.C, west of U.S. Highway 17 to 

 Georgetown; thence west and south on 

 U.S. Alternate Highway 17 to junction 

 with U.S. Interstate Highway 95 near 

 Watersboro, S.C; thence south on U.S. 

 Interstate Highway 95 (including in- 

 complete portions) to junction with 

 U.S. Highway 82; thence southwest on 

 U.S. Highway 82 to junction with U.S. 

 Highway 84 at Waycross, Ga., thence 

 west on U.S. Highway 84 to the Ala- 

 bama-Georgia border; thence south 

 along this border to the Florida border 

 and following Florida border west and 

 south to its termination at the Gulf of 

 Mexico; then from the Mississippi-Lou- 

 isiana border at the Gulf of Mexico 

 north along this border to its junction 

 with U.S. Interstate Highway 12; 



