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South African Nile Crocodile

Funny enough, I have heard the reverse; that it looks like the preliminary data suggests it might go the way of suchus and end up with full species status.

I cannot find any research confirming that. The only recent research about this topic I could find now was this:

http://desalle.amnh.org/pdf/Hekkala.2010.ConservGenet.pdf

Which states that genetically the Madagascar populations are recognizable a a unit and that the differentiation reflects subspecific status. Morphologically the species is too variable to make proper subspecific divisions.
 

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