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The American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus, inhabits a coastal, estuarine environment; its Atlantic distribution has included all the major islands of the West Indies, the Atlantic coastal lowlands from the southern coasts of Florida, and from Tamaulipas in Mexico to Venezuela (Campbell and Winterbotham, 1985; Schmidt and Ingor, 1957; Minton and Minton, 1973). The lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, frequents this same coastal, estuarine environment (Springer, 1938, 1940; Gruber, 1982).
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Rasmussen, L.E.L., Schmidt, M.J. (1992). Are Sharks Chemically Aware of Crocodiles?. In: Doty, R.L., Müller-Schwarze, D. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9655-1_53
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