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It is one of the most widespread monitor lizards. 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 ...
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.
Mertens' water monitor (Varanus mertensi), often misspelled Mertin's water monitor, is a species of monitor lizard. The species is endemic to northern Australia, and is a wide-ranging, actively foraging, opportunistic predator of aquatic and riparian habitats. [2] It is named after German herpetologist Robert Mertens. [3]
Water monitors are a large breed of monitor lizard and are a common sight in Singapore’s green spaces and rivers. The reptiles can grow to as long as two meters in length (6 feet) and weigh up ...
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.
Mitchell's water monitor (Varanus mitchelli) is a semiaquatic species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is native to Australia. [ 4 ] The species is native to the northern regions of Australia and is on the IUCN Red List as a critically endangered species.
Wild monitor lizards have become an unlikely attraction at this park - with tourists visiting to take pictures of the reptiles. Officials believe there are around 400 of the creatures lurking in ...
While they're nowhere near as large as iguanas or Nile monitors — more non-native species found in Florida — the Peter's rock agamas aren't the little lizards that hide in your door jamb to ...