Orinoco crocodile
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| phylum | Chordata | The Orinoco crocodile , is a critically endangered crocodile. Its population is very small, estimated at only 547 in the wild and it can only be found in freshwater environments in Colombia and Venezuela of northern South America, in particular the Orinoco River and its tributaries. It is a very large species, in fact the largest species of crocodilian and predator in the Americas. Males have been reported up to 6.6 m (22 ft) in the past but such sizes do not exist today, 5.2 m (17 ft) being a more widely accepted maximum size.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| clade | Crocodylomorpha | |
| order | Crocodilia | |
| family | Crocodylidae | |
| genus | Crocodylus | |
| species | C. intermedius |
