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title: "Moeraskrokodil"
description: "Crocodylus palustris — Reptielen. The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is a medium-sized broad-snouted crocodile, also known as mugger and marsh crocodile."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/mugger-crocodile
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Moeraskrokodil

> Crocodylus palustris — Reptielen. The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is a medium-sized broad-snouted crocodile, also known as mugger and marsh crocodile.

- Scientific name: *Crocodylus palustris*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 4144
- Wikidata: [Q81207](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81207)
- iNaturalist taxon: [26063](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/26063)

## Names

- en: Mugger Crocodile
- de: Sumpfkrokodil
- es: Cocodrilo Marismeño
- fr: Crocodile Palustre
- nl: Moeraskrokodil
- pt: Crocodilo-persa
- pl: Krokodyl błotny

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1896), LK (1523), NP (446), IR (21), PK (7), BD (3)

## Summary

The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) is a medium-sized broad-snouted crocodile, also known as mugger and marsh crocodile. It is native to freshwater habitats from south-eastern Iran to the Indian subcontinent, where it inhabits marshes, lakes, rivers and artificial ponds. It rarely reaches a body length of 5 m (16 ft 5 in) and is a powerful swimmer, but also walks on land in search of suitable waterbodies during the hot season. Both young and adult mugger crocodiles dig burrows to which they retreat when the ambient temperature drops below 5 °C (41 °F) or exceeds 38 °C (100 °F). Females dig holes in the sand…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugger_crocodile

## Photo

![Moeraskrokodil](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mugger-crocodile/medium.jpg)

Photo: Светлана Царахова · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200272104

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mugger-crocodile?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).