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Data from: Did Late Pleistocene climate change result in parallel genetic structure and demographic bottlenecks in sympatric Central African crocodiles, Mecistops and Osteolaemus?
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FIGURE 7. NHMUK 1947.3.6.45 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 7. NHMUK 1947.3.6.45, holotype, Mecistops leptorhynchus; mounted juvenile specimen (top), with close up views of the head, flank, and venter.
FIGURE 3 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 3. Squamosal boss or crest of Mecistops cataphractus (a) and its absence in M. leptorhynchus (b).
FIGURE 6 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 6. Photographic series of M. cataphractus illustrating variation seen in the color and pattern throughout this species distribution. Left to right, top to bottom: dark colored juvenile showing burnt orange eye coloration from captive collection, USA (1-1); adult showing unpatterned, tan coloration of the Upper Guinea populations and illustrating very clearly the squamosal bosses typical of M. cataphractus from the Abidjan National Zoo, Côte d'Ivoire (1-2); highly blotched individual with the green/olive coloration from Silver Springs, Florida (1-3); highly blotched and banded adult with dark gold coloration from Silver Springs, Florida (2-1); a similarly patterned juvenile wild caught in Côte d'Ivoire formerly held at the Dipi Crocodile Farm (2-2); representative ventral coloration and pattern, most individual M. cataphractus show some level of dark blotching, St. Augustine Alligator Farm, Florida (2-3); melanistic individual wild caught in the Abi Lagoon, Côte d'Ivoire but captive held at the Parc Zoologique d'Assinie (3-1); yellow/gold colored individual illustrating the reduced jaw spotting of some individuals found in the Upper Guinea forests of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire (3-2); dull/dark colored yearling, Subin River, Ghana (3-3); typically colored and patterned animals from the Senegambia area illustrating the dark gold background color and heavy black blotching, jaw spots, and overall dark patterning from the Gambia River, River Gambia National Park, The Gambia (row 4).
FIGURE 4 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 4. Typical nuchal scutellation in adult Mecistops cataphractus (a) and M. leptorhynchus (b). Note also the modest squamosal boss in M. cataphractus, which is absent in M. leptorhynchus.
FIGURE 2. MCZ R-22483 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 2. MCZ R-22483, neotype, Mecistops cataphractus. Photographic series showing dorsal, ventral, and lateral views of the skull, and overview of the mandibles. Photo credit: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.
FIGURE 9 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 9. Photographic series of M. leptorhynchus illustrating variation seen in the color and pattern throughout this species distribution. Left to right, top to bottom: Dark individual from the Ruzizi Delta, Lake Tanganyika, DRC (1-1); close-up of the head of a standard colored individual from the N'dougou Lagoon, Gabon (1-2); high gold juvenile from the Echira River, Gabon (1-3); typical ventral coloration of M. leptorhynchus, N'dougou Lagoon, Gabon (2-1); typical flank scalation illustrating the comparatively less keeled and scaly appearance of M. leptorhynchus compared to M. cataphractus (2-2); abnormally blonde individual from the Mpassa River, Plateau Bateke, Gabon (2-3); high orange and black individual from the N'gowe River, Gabon (3-1, photo credit: J. Thorbjarnarson); typical nuchal scalation (3-2); hatchling crèche from the N'gowe River, Gabon (3-3).
FIGURE 1 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 1. Map showing the distribution of Mecistops and its two content species: M. cataphractus and M. leptorhynchus.
FIGURE 8. FLMNH 166780 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 8. FLMNH 166780, suitable replacement type material in the event it's needed, Mecistops leptorhynchus. Photographic series showing dorsal, ventral, and lateral views of the skull, and overview of the mandibles.
Mecistops leptorhynchus, photographed along the Bongo River, Moukalaba- Doudou National Park, Gabon. Researcher Matthew Shirley is using new techniques, such as geometric morphometrics, in taxonomic studies. Photograph: Matthew Shirley. in The Evolution of Natural History Collections
Mecistops leptorhynchus, photographed along the Bongo River, Moukalaba- Doudou National Park, Gabon. Researcher Matthew Shirley is using new techniques, such as geometric morphometrics, in taxonomic studies. Photograph: Matthew Shirley.
FIGURE 5 in Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844)
FIGURE 5. Typical flank scalation in adult Mecistops cataphractus (a) and M. leptorhynchus (b).
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