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The Asian water monitor has a natural affinity towards water, inhabiting the surroundings of lakes, rivers, ponds, swamps and various riparian habitats, including sewers, city parks, and urban waterways. It is an excellent swimmer and hunts fish, frogs, invertebrates, water birds, and other types of aquatic and amphibious prey.
The black rough-necked monitor (V. rudicollis) was previously in the closely related subgenus Empagusia, but genomic analyses show it is actually the basalmost member of Soterosaurus, having split from the V. salvator species complex (which is composed of all the other Southeast Asian water monitor species) 14 million years ago during the middle Miocene.
Other common names include the African small-grain lizard, [4] as well as iguana and various forms derived from it, [5] such as guana, water leguaan [6] or river leguaan (leguan, leguaan, and likkewaan mean monitor lizard in South African English, and can be used interchangeably).
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V. cumingi has the highest degree of yellow coloration among all the endemic water monitors in the Philippines. The V. cumingi is a large lizard and medium-sized monitor lizard. The largest specimens its species can reaching a length of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) with a snout-vent length of 60 cm (24 in) and 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) in a mass.
Monitor lizards are hunted, and their body fat, extracted by boiling, is used in a wide range of folk remedies. [33] Comparison to water monitor (Varanus salvator) In Sri Lanka, the Asian water monitor is considered venomous and dangerous when confronted, while the Bengal monitor (Thalagoya) is considered harmless and rather defenseless.