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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.
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.
#7 A Melanistic Asian Water Monitor (Varanus Salvator) ... #111 Results At The End Of The Pictures. Were Pretty Surprised! We Thought She Was A Dachshund Mix Her Entire Life. The Health Test Shows ...
Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) Asian water monitor is the second-largest lizard with a length of more 3 m (10 ft) and a mass in 25 kg (55 lb) The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is second-biggest lizard in the world after Komodo dragon, [1] [13] [183] and also the longest lizard in the world.
Komodo dragon (A-C), crocodile monitor (D-F), Asian water monitor (G-I). Dentition Komodo dragons have ziphodont teeth, which are defined as teeth that are laterally flattened, recurved, and with serrated tooth crowns where the serrations have a dentine core and a very thin enamel outer layer.
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