False gharial
| False gharial Temporal range: Late Pleistocene - Recent,
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| Captive false gharial in Berlin Zoo, Germany | |
CITES Appendix I
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Order: | Crocodilia |
| Family: | Gavialidae |
| Subfamily: | Tomistominae |
| Genus: | Tomistoma Müller, 1846 |
| Species: | T. schlegelii
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| Binomial name | |
| Tomistoma schlegelii (Müller, 1838)
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| Range of the false gharial | |
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The false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), also known by the names Malayan gharial, Sunda gharial and tomistoma, is a freshwater crocodilian of the family Gavialidae native to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, as the global population is estimated at around 2,500 to 10,000 mature individuals.
The species name schlegelii honors Hermann Schlegel.