- The
Varanidae are a
family of
lizards in the
superfamily Varanoidea and
order Anguimorpha. The family, a
group of
carnivorous and
frugivorous lizards...
- are
lizards in the
genus Var****, the only
extant genus in the
family Varanidae. They are
native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one
species is also...
-
attempted to
establish the
phylogenetic position of
megalania within the
Varanidae. An
affinity with the
perentie (Var**** giganteus), Australia's largest...
- as the
Komodo monitor, is a
large reptile of the
monitor lizard family Varanidae that is
endemic to the
Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili...
-
Laurenti in 1768 when he
described a
water monitor specimen. The
family Varanidae contains nearly 80
species of
monitor lizards, all of
which belong to...
-
length of up to 36 cm (14 in),
while the
largest species in the
family Varanidae,
Komodo dragon (Var**** komodoensis), has a
length up to 3
metres (10 ft)...
- monitor, is a
species of
large Australian monitor lizard in the
family Varanidae. John
Edward Gray
described the
species in 1838 as
Hydrosaurus gouldii...
- It is only
found on a
single island of off the
coast of Singapore. The
Varanidae are a
family of
carnivorous and
frugivorous monitor lizards,
which contains...
-
monitor (Var**** niloticus) is a
large member of the
monitor family (
Varanidae)
found throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa,
particularly in
drier regions...
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Wolfgang (2003). "Checklist of the
living lizards of the
world (family
Varanidae)" (PDF).
Zoologische Verhandelingen. 341: 4–43. Bucklitsch, Yannick; Böhme...
