<Li> † Alligator prenasalis </Li> <P> Alligators are native to only the United States and China . </P> <P> American alligators are found in the southeast United States: all of Florida and Louisiana; the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; coastal South and North Carolina; East Texas, the southeast corner of Oklahoma, and the southern tip of Arkansas . According to the 2005 Scholastic Book of World Records, Louisiana has the largest alligator population . The majority of American alligators inhabit Florida and Louisiana, with over a million alligators in each state . Southern Florida is the only place where both alligators and crocodiles live side by side . </P> <P> American alligators live in freshwater environments, such as ponds, marshes, wetlands, rivers, lakes, and swamps, as well as in brackish environments . When they construct alligator holes in the wetlands, they increase plant diversity and provide habitat for other animals during droughts . They are, therefore, considered an important species for maintaining ecological diversity in wetlands . Farther west, in Louisiana, heavy grazing by coypu and muskrat are causing severe damage to coastal wetlands . Large alligators feed extensively on coypu, and provide a vital ecological service by reducing coypu numbers . </P>

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