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The name of a river in North Africa, used attrib. to designate animals native to the region, as Nile crocodile, the African crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus; cf. crocodile 1; Nile monitor = iguana 2; Nile perch, a large food fish, Lates niloticus, found in the rivers and lakes of north and central Africa.
1860T. H. Huxley in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) IV. 8, I could find neither in the British Museum, nor in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, any authentic skeleton of this, the so-called Nilotic Crocodile. ]1898J. Anderson Zool. Egypt I. 1 The *Nile crocodile was described, so long ago as 1699, by Oligeus Jacobæus. 1915A. M. Reese Alligator & its Allies i. 39 The African or Nile Crocodile..is found throughout the continent of Africa. 1974BP Shield Internat. Oct. 28/4 Nile crocodiles are a prominent feature of the lake fauna.
1900H. A. Bryden Animals of Africa xv. 173 The *Nile Monitor, a big lizard, attaining a length of six feet,..is often miscalled an ‘iguana’. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo vii. 125 The Nile monitor, an immense and really powerful lizard which sometimes reaches four feet in length, has a banquet when crocodile hatching time comes around.
[1905A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. II. 235 Lates C. and V., L. niloticus, the perch of the Nile.] 1931J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes ix. 162 (caption) Skeleton of the *Nile Perch. 1949L. J. McCormick in Vesey-Fitzgerald & Lamonte Gamefish of World 367 In colour and form the Nile perch looks like an overgrown cod. 1965A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 616/2 Various species of the Nile perch are distributed in the big rivers and lakes of tropical Africa. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 46/2 The nile perches (Latidae) have been found as mummies in ancient tombs in Egypt. |