Original caption: "Fig 185. Kopf des Nilkrokodils, Crocodilus vulgaris. Translation (partly): "From above: Head of a Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)"
Date 1891
Source Schul-Naturgeschichte
Author Hubert Ludwig
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crocodylidae-drawing-simplified.jpg

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile widespread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the central, eastern, and southern regions of the continent and lives in different types of aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers and marshlands.