What is Central African slender-snouted crocodile?
{{Speciesbox |name = Central African slender-snouted crocodile |image = Mecistops leptorhynchus 2009.jpg |image_caption = Individual on a [[snake farm]] in [[Tanzania]] |genus = Mecistops |species = leptorhynchus |authority = ([[Edward Turner Bennett|Bennett]], 1835)<ref name=desc>{{cite journal|author=Bennett, Edward Turner|author-link=Edward Turner Bennett|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30568637|volume=1835|pages=128–132|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|year=1835|title=Character of a New Species of Crocodile (''Crocodilus leptorhynchus'')}}</ref> |synonyms = *''Crocodilus leptorhynchus'' <br>{{small|Bennett, 1835}} *''Mecistops leptorhynchus'' <br>{{small|— [[Matthew H. Shirley|Shirley]] et al., 2018}} | synonyms_ref = }} The '''Central African slender-snouted crocodile''' (''Mecistops leptorhynchus'') is one of two [[species]] of [[crocodile]]s in the [[genus]] [[Mecistops]]. The Central African slender-snouted crocodile lives in Central Africa ([[Cameroon]], [[Equatorial Guinea]], [[Gabon]], northern [[Angola]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]) and extends into [[South Sudan]] in [[East Africa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_slender-snouted_crocodile |title=Central African slender-snouted crocodile |website=Wikipedia}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Crocodilians of Africa]] {{biology-stub}}