Chinese alligator
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| phylum | Chordata | The Chinese alligator, also known as the Yangtze alligator or historically called the muddy dragon, is a critically endangered crocodilian endemic to China. Dark gray or black in color with a fully armored body, the Chinese alligator is less than half the size of its American relative. It brumates in self-constructed burrows in the winter and becomes nocturnal in the summer.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| clade | Crocodylomorpha | |
| order | Crocodilia | |
| family | Alligatoridae | |
| genus | Alligator | |
| species | A. sinensis |
