CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 39 



REPTILIA (CLASS) 



Laurenti, Syn. Rept., 1768, p. 19 



DIAPSIDA (SUBCLASS) 

 OsBORN, Science, N. S., Vol. 17, Feb. 13, 1903, p. 276 



LORICATA (ORDER) 



Merrem, Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 34 



CROCODYLIDAE (FAMILY) 



Crocodylus (GENUS) 



Laurenti, Syn. Rept., 1768, p. 53 

 type: niloticus = Lacerta crocodilus Linne in part 



Crocodylus acutus Cuvier 

 CROCODILE 



Crocodilus acutus Cuvier 



Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. 10, 1807, p. 55, pi. 1, fig. 3, pi. 2, 

 fig. 5. 

 Crocodilus americanus Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 173, fig. 2. 



TYPE locality: San Domingo. 



range: Southern Florida, the Greater Antilles (except Porto 



Rico), both coasts of Central America from Mexico to Ecuador 



and Colombia. 



Alligator (GENUS) 



Cuvier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. 10, 1807, p. 25 

 type: lucius = Lacerta alligator Blumenbach, 1788, in part = missis- 



sipiensis 



Alligator mississipiensis (Daudin) 

 ALLIGATOR 



Crocodilus mississipiensis Daudin 



Hist. Nat. Rept., Vol. 2, 1803, p. 412. 

 Alligator missisipensis [sic] Gray 



Syn. Rept., 1831, p. 62. 



