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Varanus spinulosus, the Solomon Island spiny monitor, Isabel monitor, [1] [2] or spiny-neck monitor, [3] is a species of monitor lizard. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago and is also known from Santa Isabel Island , San Jorge Island ( Solomon Islands ) and Bourgainville Island ( Papua New Guinea ).
Monitor lizards are poached in some South- and Southeast Asian countries, as their organs and fat are used in some traditional medicines, although there is no scientific evidence as to their effectiveness. [38] [39] Monitor lizard meat, particularly the tongue and liver, is eaten in parts of India and Malaysia and is supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
Varanus macraei, the blue-spotted tree monitor or blue tree monitor, is a species of monitor lizard found on the island of Batanta in Indonesia. It is named after herpetologist Duncan R. MacRae, founder of the reptile park Rimba on Bali .
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.
Varanus zugorum, also known commonly as the silver monitor [3] or Zugs' monitor, [4] is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to the island of Halmahera in the Moluccas , in Indonesia .
Monitor lizard venom is extremely complex and diverse due to the great range of ecological niches that they occupy. [12] Emerald tree monitor skull. Tree monitors have the most potently fibrinogenolytic venoms of all monitor lizards, matched only by the also arboreal banded monitor from the subgenus Odatria.
The crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii), also known as the Papuan monitor or Salvadori's monitor, is a species of monitor lizard endemic to New Guinea. It is the largest monitor lizard in New Guinea and is one of the longest lizards , verified at up to 255 cm (100 in).
Clouded monitor hatchlings by comparison tend to have a series of backward-pointing, V-shaped bands on their necks. [5] Bengal monitors have external nostril openings (nares) that is slit-like and oriented near horizontal, and positions between the eye and the tip of the snout.