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The Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. It is widely considered to be the second-largest lizard species , after the Komodo dragon .
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.
The largest Soterosaurus is an Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) (see higher). Second hugest after Asian water monitor are the marbled water monitor (Varanus marmoratus) and the Palawan water monitor (Varanus palawanensis) with a total length of almost 2 m (6.6 ft) (SVL of last one measuring 78.8 cm (31.0 in)).
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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.
The family, a group of carnivorous and frugivorous lizards, [1] includes the living genus Varanus and a number of extinct genera more closely related to Varanus than to the earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus). [2] Varanus includes the Komodo dragon (the largest living lizard), crocodile monitor, savannah monitor, the goannas of Australia and ...
"Morphological studies on the systematics of south east Asian water monitors (Varanus salvator Complex): nominotypic populations and taxonomic overview". Mertensiella 16: 109-180. Lagat RD (2009). "A taxonomic account of lizards along established trails in Mts. Palay-Palay Mataas-na-gulod protected landscape, Luzon Island, Philippines".
Crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii) Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) Banded tree monitor (Varanus scalaris) Isabel monitor (Varanus spinulosus) Liolaemids.