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Alligators, caimans, gavials, and crocodiles are collectively known as "crocodilians." This group belongs to the order Crocodylia and is characterized by their semi-aquatic lifestyles, elongated bodies, and powerful jaws. Crocodilians are found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world.
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The name of a group of reptiles including alligators caimans crocodiles and gavials?
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What name is given to the group of reptiles that includes alligators crocodiles caimans and gavials?
The group of reptiles that includes alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gavials is called Crocodylia. This order is characterized by their semi-aquatic lifestyle, elongated bodies, and distinctive snouts. Members of Crocodylia are often found in freshwater and saltwater habitats around the world.
What are different types of aligators?
The name of the larger group of reptiles is called crocodilians, that consits of crocodiles, alligators (including caimans), and gharials.
Why are alligators and dinosaurs relatives?
Alligators and dinosaurs both belong to the archosaur group, which are a type of reptile. They share a common ancestor that lived over 250 million years ago. Despite evolving into different species over time, they both exhibit similar characteristics due to their shared evolutionary history.
Is float a collective noun for crocodiles?
There is no standard collective noun for a group of caimans.The collective nouns for alligators could be applied to caimans:a bask of caimansa congregation of caimans
What are a group of crocodiles call?
A group of crocodiles is called a bask or a float, not to be confused with a group of alligators which is called a congregation.
The closest relatives of the crocodile are?
The closest living relatives of crocodiles are birds and dinosaurs. Crocodiles, birds, and dinosaurs are all part of the larger group called Archosauria, which includes the ruling reptiles of the Mesozoic era. This group shares certain anatomical and genetic similarities.
Are crocodilians extinct?
No, they actually thrive. This is because the crocodilians is a group of animals like mammals and reptiles. crocodiles, gavials, alligators and caimans are crocodilians. And we all know that they still live on our planet, and lived millions of years ago, probably before even the dinosaurs! The reason they weren't extinct with the dinosaurs is because they swam in the oceans and hid from the great extinction. When it as over, they went back on land and fed on anything they could, just like the mice-like creatures hiding in the ground.
Which group of animals called congregation?
a congregation is the collective noun for birds
What animals are in the reptile group?
Lizards, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials, chameleons, geckos, monitors, basilisks, amphisbaenians, iguanas, snapping turtles, terrapins, tortoises and turtles are examples of reptiles. It is widely thought that dinosaurs were all reptiles too. There were also many predinosaurian (true) reptiles. Pelycosaurs were related to mammal like reptiles which were also 2 predinosaurian groups of reptiles. Pterosaurs and ichthyosaurs mainly lived at the same time as the dinosaurs and were flying and swimming reptiles respectively.
Do saltwater crocodiles live in groups?
Yes alligators do live in groups (some of them,)
Are there alligators in Kenya?
No, alligators are not found naturally in Kenya. Kenya is home to crocodiles, not alligators. Crocodiles and alligators belong to the same group of animals (crocodilians), but they are found in different regions of the world.
