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SpeciesCrocodylidae
Reptiles

🐊False gharial

Tomistoma schlegelii (Müller, 1838)

A Szunda-krokodil (Tomistoma schlegelii) a hüllők (Reptilia) osztályába krokodilok (Crocodilia) rendjébe, ezen belül a gaviálfélék (Gavialidae) családjába tartozó faj. Tudományos nevét Hermann Schlegel német ornitológusról kapta.

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Also called
Tomistoma, Malayan Gharial, Sunda Gharial
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
119 kg
Body length
5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
25 years
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Everything we know about the False gharial

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
119 kgrecord 590 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
5 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
25 yearsrecord 80 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
102 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
119 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for False gharial yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classCrocodylia
  4. ›familyCrocodylidae
  5. ›genusTomistoma
  6. ›speciesTomistoma schlegelii
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. familyGavialidae
  3. subfamilyTomistominae
  4. genusTomistoma
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. familyGavialidae
  10. subfamilyTomistominae
  11. genusTomistoma
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In other languages
Tomistoma schlegelii (es), Faux-gavial de Malaisie (fr), Krokodyl gawialowy (pl), גוויאל חקיין (he), 말레이가비알 (ko), Szunda-krokodil (hu) … and 22 more languages
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