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Alligatorinae

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Alligatorinae was named by Cuvier (1807) [also attributed to Kälin 1940 and Kälin 1955]. It is extant.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Alligatorinae by Rio and Mannion (2021).

It was assigned to Crocodilidae by Kuhn (1946); to Crocodylidae by Estes (1964), Kuhn (1966), Estes and Berberian (1970), Estes (1976), Erickson (1982), Peng et al. (2001), Böhme (2002), Pearson et al. (2002); to Alligatoridae by Khajuria and Prasad (1998), Brochu (1999), Snyder (2007), Pinheiro et al. (2013); and to Alligatoridae by Rio and Mannion (2021).