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title: "Crocodilo-do-nilo"
description: "Crocodylus niloticus — Répteis. The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/nile-crocodile
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Crocodilo-do-nilo

> Crocodylus niloticus — Répteis. The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries.

- Scientific name: *Crocodylus niloticus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Répteis)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 10767
- Wikidata: [Q168745](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168745)
- iNaturalist taxon: [341972](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/341972)

## Names

- en: Nile Crocodile
- de: Nilkrokodil
- es: Cocodrilo del Nilo
- fr: Crocodile du Nil
- nl: Nijlkrokodil
- pt: Crocodilo-do-nilo
- pl: Krokodyl nilowy

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (3737), KE (1390), BW (1086), TZ (941), UG (572), ZM (551), ZW (398), NA (377), MW (184), MZ (131), MG (110), ET (107)

## Summary

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent, and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers, swamps and marshlands. It occasionally inhabits deltas, brackish lakes and rarely also saltwater. Its range once stretched from the Nile Delta throughout the Nile River. Lake Turkana in Kenya has one of the largest undisturbed Nile crocodile populations.
Generally, the adult…

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

## Photo

![Crocodilo-do-nilo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/nile-crocodile/medium.jpg)

Photo: Paulo Mascaretti · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314228951

## Machine access

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