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Chinese Alligator (Alligator
sinensis)
T85 (1983.05.24)
The Chinese alligator is a national first-grade wild fauna for protection,
distributed in some areas along the middle and lower reaches
of the Yangtze River with only several hundred
individuals in the wild. In order to save this species, China
has established a Chinese Alligator Propagation and Research
Centre in Anhui Province, and also a nature reserve
for the conservation of the Chinese alligator occupying 440 square kilometers
of land. The propagated population of the
Chinese alligator has exceeded 4,000.
The Chinese alligator belongs to the Family Alligatoridae in the Order
Crocodilia. |
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