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gavial (gā`vēəl), large reptile of the crocodile crocodile, large, carnivorous reptile of the order Crocodilia, found in tropical and subtropical regions. Crocodiles live in swamps or on river banks and catch their prey in the water. They have flattened bodies and tails, short legs, and powerful jaws.
..... Click the link for more information. order, found in rivers from Pakistan to Myanmar. Also called gharial, the gavial (Gavialis gangeticus) is distinguished from the crocodiles and alligators alligator, large aquatic reptile of the genus Alligator, in the same order as the crocodile. There are two species—a large type found in the S United States and a small type found in E China. Alligators differ from crocodiles in several ways.
..... Click the link for more information. by its extremely long, slender, parallel-sided snout. It feeds chiefly on fish, which it catches with side-to-side sweeps of the head. The young are hatched from eggs buried in the riverbank. Gavials are not known to attack humans. They average 12 to 15 ft (3.7–4.6 m) in length, with some individuals over 20 ft (6.1 m) long. The so-called false gavial is actually a narrow-snouted crocodile. The true gavial is classified in the phylum Chordata Chordata , phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Crocodilia, family Gavialidea.

gavial [′gā·vē·əl]

(vertebrate zoology)

The name for two species of reptiles composing the family Gavialidae.

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There are also crocodiles, the odd-looking gavial or gharial (a thin- snouted, flish-eating crocodile often spotted from High Bank), monitor lizards, wild boars and jackals.

Jim Corbett National Park by Tapan kumar / Travel, recreation and leisure community

MOVE aside gharial, the Gangetic dolphin, a fresh water mammal facing extinction, has made its big leap.

River dolphin crowned India's aquatic animal by Mail Today (New Delhi, India)

In 1919 on her honeymoon in India she shot the Gharial crocodile pictured above and had it made into two cases and a pair of shoes.

When my stiletto was used to cut my wellies by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

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