Crocodylus

The 13–14 living species are:

Image	Scientific name	Taxon authority	Common name	Distribution
	Crocodylus acutus	(Cuvier, 1807)	American crocodile	Southern Florida and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of north Mexico to north America as far south as Peru and Venezuela, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Grand Cayman.
	Crocodylus halli [4]	Murray, Russo, Zorrilla & McMahan, 2019	Hall's crocodile	southern New Guinea
	Crocodylus intermedius	(Graves, 1819)	Orinoco crocodile	Colombia and Venezuela
	Crocodylus johnstoni	Krefft, 1873	Freshwater crocodile	Northern regions of Australia
	Crocodylus mindorensis	Schmidt, 1935	Philippine crocodile	Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park within the Luzon rainforest, San Mariano, Isabela, Dalupiri island in the Babuyan Islands, Abra (province) in Luzon and the Ligawasan Marsh, Lake Sebu in South Cotabato, Pulangi River in Bukidnon, and possibly in the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary in Mindanao
	Crocodylus moreletii	(A.H.A. Duméril & Bibron, 1851)	Morelet's crocodile or Mexican crocodile	Mexico, Belize and Guatemala
	Crocodylus niloticus	Laurenti, 1768	Nile crocodile or African crocodile, (the subspecies found in Madagascar, C. n. madagascariensis, is sometimes called the black crocodile)	Israel and Syria (historically), Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Angola, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Sudan, South Sudan, Botswana, and Cameroon
	Crocodylus novaeguineae	Schmidt, 1928	New Guinea crocodile	northern New Guinea
	Crocodylus palustris	(Lesson, 1831)	Mugger crocodile, marsh crocodile, or Indian crocodile	southern Iran, southern Pakistan, southern Nepal, India, Sri Lanka
	Crocodylus porosus	Schneider, 1801	Saltwater crocodile or estuarine crocodile	Eastern India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Northern Australia
	Crocodylus rhombifer	(Cuvier, 1807)	Cuban crocodile	Cuba
	Crocodylus siamensis	Schneider, 1801	Siamese crocodile	Indonesia (Borneo and possibly Java), Brunei, East Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
	Crocodylus suchus	Geoffroy, 1807	West African crocodile or desert crocodile	Mauritania, Benin, Liberia, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gabon, Togo, Ivory Coast and Republic of Congo
	Crocodylus raninus (Considered to be a synonym of Crocodylus porosus; its status remains unclear).[5]	S. Müller & Schlegel, 1844	Borneo crocodile	Borneo

Crocodylus also includes five extinct species:[3]

• † Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene of Tanzania.
• † Crocodylus checchiai is an extinct crocodile from Late Miocene of Kenya.
• † Crocodylus falconensis is an extinct crocodile from Early Pliocene of Venezuela.
• † Crocodylus palaeindicus is an extinct crocodile the Miocene to the Pleistocene of southern Asia.
• † Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni is an extinct crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya.

A 2018 tip dating study by Lee & Yates simultaneously using morphological, molecular (DNA sequencing), and stratigraphic (fossil age) data established the inter-relationships within Crocodylidae.[8] In 2021, Hekkala et al. were able to use paleogenomics, extracting DNA from the extinct Voay, to better establish the relationships within Crocodylidae, including the subfamilies Crocodylinae and Osteolaeminae.[6]

The below cladogram shows the results of the latest study: