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PROF. RITCHIE need have no fear that the name Crocodilus for the crocodiles in general will be replaced in future by Champse1, It was unfortunate that Dr. Werner's blunder should have appeared in so authoritative a work as “Das Tierreich” but it was at once corrected by Dr. Stejneger in Copeia, No. 3, p. 117, Oct. 1933. The type of Crocodilus, both by absolute) tautonymy and by subsequent designation, is niloticus = the Lacerta crocodilus of Linnæus (in part).
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NATURE, 133, 835, June 2, 1934.
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SMITH, M. Crocodiles or Alligators. Nature 133, 986 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133986c0
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