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The relationship of these two species to the third known species of fruit-eating monitor, V. mabitang, is unknown due to a lack of genetic data on V. mabitang, but similar genital morphology [11] suggests that these three species are each others' closest relatives (sometimes referred to as subgenus Philippinosaurus [12]).
The Gray's monitor (Varanus olivaceus) is a large (180 cm, >9 kg) monitor lizard known only from lowland dipterocarp forest in southern Luzon, Catanduanes, and Polillo Island, all islands in the Philippines. [1] It is also known as Gray's monitor lizard, butaan, and ornate monitor. [3] It belongs to the subgenus Philippinosaurus. [4]
The Rennell Island monitor (Varanus juxtindicus) [4] is a species of monitor lizards found in the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is also known as the Hakoi monitor . [ 5 ] It belongs to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus along with the canopy goanna , the peach-throated monitor , Kalabeck's monitor , and others.
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
A huge monitor lizard explored a family's garage before it was caught hiding behind a Buddhist shrine. Footage shows the 5ft-long reptile crawling along the driveway before a resident discovered ...
Tree monitors have the most potently fibrinogenolytic venoms of all monitor lizards, matched only by the also arboreal banded monitor from the subgenus Odatria. This may be because arboreal monitor species experience strong selection pressure to quickly subjugate prey items before they break free and escape by falling out of the trees or flying ...
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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 .