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The black water monitor from Thailand's Satun Province and Thai-Malaysian border area was formerly the subspecies V. s. komaini, but now is regarded as a junior synonym and melanistic population of V. s. macromaculatus. [7]
The most commonly kept monitors are the savannah monitor and Ackie dwarf monitor, due to their relatively small size, low cost, and relatively calm dispositions with regular handling. [3] Among others, black-throated , Timor , Asian water , Nile , mangrove , emerald tree , black tree , roughneck , Dumeril's , peach-throated , crocodile , and ...
Red-necked monitor: Rough-necked monitor lizard: เห่าช้าง: West and south Varanus dumerilii: Varanidae: Harlequin monitor: Dumeril's monitor lizard: ตุ๊ดตู่: West and south Varanus salvator: Varanidae: Water monitor: เหี้ย: Widespread Varanus nebulosus: Varanidae: South-east Asian monitor: Clouded monitor
The government's emphasis on improving water supplies in Bangkok led to the merging of the Nonthaburi municipality water supply, Samut Prakan's water supply, and Thonburi's water supply with those of Bangkok Waterworks. A new organization called the "Metropolitan Waterworks Authority", a public enterprise under the Interior Ministry, began ...
The black roughneck is a medium to large monitor. It usually reaches an average adult size of 3–4 ft. (90–120 cm), with a maximum length of 5 feet (150 cm), reported. [8] The black rough-necked monitor can be easily recognized by large pointed scales adorning the necks of adults. [4]
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.
In 2003, PCD set up 240 monitoring stations in Thailand's 23 coastal provinces and on significant islands. In 2003, monitoring results showed that coastal water of 68 percent of the stations were in "very good" and "good" quality. Thirty percent of the stations were in "fair" condition and only three percent were in "poor" quality.
Thale Noi Non-Hunting Area (alternate spelling: Talae or Talay) is a protected fresh water wetland located in Phatthalung province, southern Thailand. Covering an area of 460 km 2, the wetlands are situated approximately 20 km inland from the east coast peninsula of the Gulf of Thailand and 115 km north of the Malaysian border in Satun province.