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The lace monitor (Varanus varius), also known as the tree goanna, is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in total length and 14 kilograms (31 lb) in weight.
Megalania (Varanus priscus) is an extinct species of giant monitor lizard, [1] part of the megafaunal assemblage that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene.It is the largest terrestrial lizard known to have existed, but the fragmentary nature of known remains make estimates highly uncertain.
Perenties are the largest living species of lizard in Australia. Perenties can grow to lengths of 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) and weigh up to 20 kg (44 lb), possibly up to 3 m (9 ft 10 in) and 40 kg (88 lb), making it the fourth-largest extant species of lizard (exceeded in size only by the Komodo dragon , Asian water monitor and crocodile monitor ).
The lace monitor (Varanus varius) is the second-largest lizard in Australia after the perentie [9] and seven-largest lizard in the world overall. [13] The largest instances may reach a length of 2 m (6.6 ft) with a SVL of 76.5 cm (30.1 in) and a mass of 14 kg (31 lb). [4] In 1986 Gerard Krefft suggested that lace monitors grow as large as 250 ...
The lace monitor is the second-largest of all goannas, reaching lengths up to 2 m (6.6 ft). Other more common tree goannas, such as the Timor tree monitor ( V. timorensis ) and mournful tree monitor ( V. tristis ,) do not grow to quite such lengths, typically a maximum of 61 cm, nose-to-tail.
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
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Monitors or goannas: Lace monitor (Varanus varius) Scincidae: Skinks: Western blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua occipitalis) Typhlopidae: Blind snakes: Proximus blind snake (Ramphotyphlops proximus) - Pythonidae: Pythons: Green tree python (Morelia viridis) Colubridae: Colubrid snakes: Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) Elapidae-Common death adder ...