Crocodylinae is a subfamily of true crocodiles within the family Crocodylidae, and is the sister taxon to Osteolaeminae (dwarf crocodiles and slender-snouted crocodiles).
Taxonomy
Crocodylinae was cladistically defined by Christopher Brochu in 1999 as Crocodylus niloticus (the Nile crocodile) and all crocodylians more closely related to it than to Osteolaemus tetraspis (the Dwarf crocodile). or the extinct genus Voay.
Phylogeny
Some morphological studies have recovered Mecistops as a basal member of Crocodylinae, more closely related to Crocodylus than to Osteolaemus and the other members of Osteolaeminae, as shown in the cladogram below.
Species list
thumb|right|[[American crocodile at La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico]]
thumb|250px|A skull of the extinct [[Voay robustus]]
Crocodylinae contains 13-14 extant species and 6 extinct species.
- Subfamily Crocodylinae
- Genus Crocodylus
- Crocodylus acutus, American crocodile
- Crocodylus halli, Hall's New Guinea crocodile
- Crocodylus intermedius, Orinoco crocodile
- Crocodylus johnstoni, Freshwater crocodile, or Johnstone's crocodile
- Crocodylus mindorensis, Philippine crocodile
- Crocodylus moreletii, Morelet's crocodile or Mexican crocodile
- Crocodylus niloticus, Nile crocodile
- Crocodylus novaeguineae, New Guinea crocodile
- Crocodylus raninus, Borneo crocodile, is related to C. novaeguineae, but whether or not it is a distinct species remains unclear.
- Crocodylus palustris, mugger, marsh or Indian crocodile
- Crocodylus porosus, Saltwater crocodile or Estuarine crocodile
- Crocodylus rhombifer, Cuban crocodile
- Crocodylus siamensis, Siamese crocodile
- Crocodylus suchus, West African crocodile, desert or sacred crocodile
- Crocodylus anthropophagus
- Crocodylus checchiai
- Crocodylus falconensis
- Crocodylus palaeindicus
- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
- Genus Voay
- Voay robustus (formerly Crocodylus robustus)