American alligator

Alligator mississippiensis · Alligatoridae

The American alligator, sometimes referred to as a common alligator or just gator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States. It is one of the two extant species in the genus Alligator, and is larger than the only other living alligator species, the Chinese alligator.

Where the American alligator lives

Recorded in United States of America (North America).

Most records fall in Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama.

See the American alligator’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 76,032 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.