“…On the African continent, the Nile crocodile C. niloticus (Laurenti) harbours three species, P. gonotyl (Dollfus, 1950), P. productum (Odhner, 1902) and P. vicinum (Odhner, 1902). A further three species, P. atae (Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1936), P. crocodilii (Yamaguti, 1954) and P. elongatum (Tubangui & Masiluñgan, 1936), have been recorded in C. porosus Schneider from the Indomalayan region, and P. nicolli Brooks, 1980 was collected from C. johnsoni Krefft in Australia (Yamaguti, 1958;Brooks, 1980;Catto & Amato, 1993;Tkach & Snyder, 2003). This paper describes a new species of Proctocaecum, P. gairhei n.…”