Reptilia · Crocodilia
Saltwater Crocodile
Crocodylus porosus
The largest living reptile on Earth, with adult males exceeding 6 meters in length and weighing over 1,000 kg, capable of thriving in open hypersaline sea channels.
- Realm
- Coastal
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1459 licence-filtered records across 37 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (6)
- Annual crocodile population monitoring spotlight surveys 2006-2022 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy Surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Individual sighting (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)