Reptile
Gharial
Gavialis gangeticus
On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened animals listIUCN: Critically Endangered, A2bce, assessed 2017
Image: Hari Mohan Meena · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · National Chambal Sanctuary, 9 February 2019 · Resized
What the sources say
- RajasthanThe Board lists it for the Chambal river sanctuary.[1]
- RajasthanThe gharial reserves of India are in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Adults eat almost only fish. Females lay eggs in steep sandy banks.[7]
- IndiaThreats named are dams and diversions that dry rivers, fishing nets that kill adults and take their prey, and disturbance of sandbanks by gourd farming and livestock.[7]
Sources
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Animals of Rajasthan (39 animals, with localities) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
- Wildlife Institute of India, National Mission for Clean Ganga. Gharial (priority species page, updated 27 July 2023) (government). Names the Chambal and Rajasthan.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.
