Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus 1. Head and foot of the broad-snouted caiman, Caiman latirostris 2, and head of the critically endangered gharial, Gavialis gangeticus 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Louis Victor Bévalet from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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