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Monitor lizard. Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as an invasive species. [1] About 80 species are recognized. Monitor lizards have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs.
The Nile monitor ( Varanus niloticus) is a large member of the monitor family ( Varanidae) found throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in drier regions, and along the Nile River and its tributaries in East Africa. Additionally, there are modern, invasive populations in North America. The population found in West African forests ...
Varanus salvator. ( Laurenti, 1768) The Asian water monitor ( Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. It is widely considered to be the second-largest lizard species, after the Komodo dragon. It is distributed from eastern and northeastern India and Bangladesh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka ...
Yellow-spotted monitor. The yellow-spotted monitor [1] [2] [3] ( Varanus panoptes ), also known as the Argus monitor, [4] is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia and southern New Guinea. [1] [2]
Eromanga, Queensland. A species of Varanus, lizards known as monitors and goannas, that is found in a variety of habitat.Due to the taxonomic uncertainty during the twentieth century the species form and behaviour has included taxa later recognised as distinct species, this includes V. rosenbergi, formerly treated as a subspecies and later elevated, and V. panoptes, described as a new species ...
Varanus teriae Sprackland, 1991. Varanus keithhornei, commonly known as the canopy goanna, Keith Horne's monitor, blue-nosed tree monitor, [4] or Nesbit River monitor, [5] is a species of monitor lizards native to northeast Australia. It is a member of the Varanus prasinus species group. [6]
Varanus terrestris Schinz, 1834. Varanus (Psammosaurus) griseus Mertens, 1942. The desert monitor ( Varanus griseus) is a species of monitor lizard of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia. The desert monitor is carnivorous, feeding on a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates.
Adult in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. The Bengal monitor can reach 175 cm with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 75 cm (30 in) and a tail of 100 cm (39 in). Males are generally larger than females. Heavy individuals may weigh nearly 7.2 kg (16 lb). [2] The populations of monitors in India and Sri Lanka differ in the scalation from those ...