Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: fig. 1.

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Gavialis gangeticus (Gmelin, 1789)

Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Defined by excluded taxon

Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1802)		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768		Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360).

Current position

Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988]

Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: fig. 13.

Alternative positions

Eusuchia (Suborder) Huxley, 1875

Ref: J.E. Martin & M.J. Benton, 2008: fig. 2. [inferred rank]

Historical positions

Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988]	Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2012: 536, fig. 13; 532.
Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988]	Ref: E. Puértolas et al., 2011: fig. 5.
Eusuchia (Suborder) Huxley, 1875	Ref: J.E. Martin & M.J. Benton, 2008: fig. 2. [inferred rank]
Crocodylia (Clade) Gmelin 1789 [Clark 1988]	Ref: C.A. Brochu, 2003: table 1 (p. 360), figs. 1, 2.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present

Systema Naturae 2000

[1f;1g;1s]