Language                               :    Name

Kriol                                        :     Aligeida

Marra                                     :      Warlajandama

Ritharrŋu/ Wägilak              :     Barrardukah; Baradukat

Ngandi                                  :      Rni-Rnanggurru

Nunggubuyu                        :      Lharragula ngarra, Lhuurj ngarra (juvenile)

Ngalakan                             :       Rnanggurru

Alawa                                   :       Warlburl-warlburl Nanggurru; Nagurru Yarrabala (tail spines)

Rembarrnga                        :       Mokko

English                                 :       Salt Water Crocodile

Scientific                             :       Crocodylus porosus

Lays up to 60 eggs in the wet season that can be harvested.

BURDAL TOTEM - Ask Burdal Elders for more cultural knowledge.

'We applied ourselves to water game. We killed saltwater crocodiles. We also ate freshwater mussels. We also killed and collected short-necked turtles and long-necked turtles.

It was for water game that we bathed. We cooked them (turtles) on an open fire (‘we burned them’), we ripped the flesh from their shells. Also we got what’s it, (turtles) from their holes (in the mud). We got long-necked turtles.'

     - Ngandi Dictionary

Sometimes the Rangers sell the eggs.

Very dangerous.

Body size up to 5m with a stocky snout.