Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti, 1768 CITES App. II Vouchers: None Localities: AB (L), IL (L, B), KF (L, G) Remarks: The Lake Turkana population of Nile Crocodiles used to be the largest in the world (IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2020). Recent data suggests that the crocodiles are heavily impacted by local fishermen who destroy nesting sites, and the remaining population is only a fraction of what it used to be (IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2020). We found Crocodylus niloticus in Lake Turkana and adjacent water bodies along the shoreline. Very young juveniles (Fig. 4A) were found in March/April.

Published as part of Kirchhof, Sebastian, Wasonga, Victor, Mazuch, Tomáš, Spawls, Stephen & Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta, 2023, An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys, pp. 1-18 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 324) (e 324) 17 (1 / 2) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12761910