Reptile / Crocodylus palustris
Mugger Crocodile
High risk of endangerment in the wild
Native
The mugger crocodile, also called marsh crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile and mugger, is a crocodilian native to freshwater habitats from southern Iran to the Indian subcontinent. It is extinct in Bhutan and Myanmar and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1982.
- Average depth
- 5 m
- Range mass
- 700 (high) kg
- Range length
- 5 (high) m
- Breeding interval
- 2 times per year
- Breeding season
- Annual dry season
- Range number of offspring
- 25 to 30
- Range gestation period
- 55 to 75 days
- Range time to independence
- 1 (high) years
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 8 to 10 years
- Range age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 12 to 15 years
- Range lifespan
Status: wild - 28.4 (high) years
- Range lifespan
Status: captivity - 31.5 (high) years
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity - 28.4 years
Steeves, G. 2019. "Crocodylus palustris" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Crocodylus_palustris/
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