This, the best-known Crocodile, is a very well-marked species,
characterized (beside the peculiarities of its dermal armour) by a
comparatively slender skull, similar in shape to that of _C. vulgaris_,
and, like it, without any sudden enlargement immediately behind the
canine groove; and by the strong ridge which arises on each lachrymal
bone close to the anterior edge of the orbit, and is continued forwards
on to the line of junction of the nasal and maxillary bones, so that
the naso-maxillary suture traverses the axis of the ridge, and then
CURVES outwards, descending towards the alveolus of the tenth tooth.
The premaxillo-maxillary suture is W-shaped; and its salient angles
reach backwards even to the level of the posterior margin of the
seventh alveolus.