Dear @loarie, I don't know on what basis the current databases are not considering subsp. madagascariensis, but the global phylogeography by Hekkala et al. 2010 ( https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10592-009-9970-5.pdf ) showed a good partitioning of the whole Madagascarian subpopulations, even better than a lot of the otehr gegraphical subspecies of the continent...
Furthermore, not assigning the Madagascarian crocodyles to any subspecies is not useful and keeping the subspecies madagascariensis don't bother anyone.
Regards,
Errol.
Dear @loarie, I don't know on what basis the current databases are not considering subsp. madagascariensis, but the global phylogeography by Hekkala et al. 2010 ( https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10592-009-9970-5.pdf ) showed a good partitioning of the whole Madagascarian subpopulations, even better than a lot of the otehr gegraphical subspecies of the continent...
Furthermore, not assigning the Madagascarian crocodyles to any subspecies is not useful and keeping the subspecies madagascariensis don't bother anyone.
Regards,
Errol.