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    The black-headed monitor or black-tailed monitor (Varanus tristis) is a relatively small species of monitor lizards native to Australia. It is occasionally...
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    eastern Storr's monitor V. timorensis, Timor monitor V. tristis V. t. tristis, black-headed monitor V. t. orientalis, freckled monitor Subgenus Papusaurus...
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    The black tree monitor or Beccari's monitor (Varanus beccarii) is a species of lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is a relatively small member...
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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...
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    yellow-headed water monitor (Varanus cumingi), also commonly known as Cuming's water monitor, the Mindanao water monitor, and the Philippine water monitor,...
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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...
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    The Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), also called the Indian monitor, is a species of monitor lizard distributed widely in the Indian subcontinent...
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    monitor, V. a. albigularis Angolan white-throated monitor, V. a. angolensis Eastern white-throated monitor, V. a. microstictus Black-throated monitor...
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    The crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii), also known as the Papuan monitor or Salvadori's monitor, is a species of monitor lizard endemic to New Guinea...
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    The Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) is a large member of the monitor family (Varanidae) found throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in drier...
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    Komodo dragon (redirect from Komodo monitor)
    dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large reptile of the monitor lizard family Varanidae that is endemic to the Indonesian...
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    savannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus) is a medium-sized species of monitor lizard native to Africa. The species is known as Bosc's monitor in Europe...
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    with the Bengal monitor, the Dumeril's monitor and other monitor lizards. It had previously been listed as a subspecies of Bengal monitor by some herpetologists...
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    spiny-tailed monitor (Varanus acanthurus), also known as the Australian spiny-tailed monitor, the ridge-tailed monitor the Ackie dwarf monitor, and colloquially...
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    The earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) is a semiaquatic, brown lizard native to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. It is the only living...
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  • Thumbnail for Gray's monitor
    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...
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    The Timor monitor is a dwarf species of monitor lizard belonging to the subgenus Odatria. Generally, it is dark greenish-gray to almost black in background...
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    yellow monitor (Varanus flavescens) or golden monitor is a monitor lizard native to South Asia. The yellow monitor is a medium-sized monitor, measuring...
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    Mertens. Mertens' water monitor grows to a total length (including tail) of about 2.0 m (6.6 ft). It is dark brown to black above, with many cream to...
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    House (Australia Building) Australian scrub python Black-headed monitor Boyd's forest dragon Broad-headed snake Burn's dragon Central netted dragon Centralian...
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  • Thumbnail for Yellow-spotted monitor
    The yellow-spotted monitor (Varanus panoptes), also known as the Argus monitor, is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia...
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    The desert monitor (Varanus griseus) is a species of monitor lizard of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia...
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    the subgenus Euprepiosaurus. The quince monitor has a bright yellow head, legs, back and tail. There is black reticulation on the lower part of its neck...
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    The emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus) or green tree monitor, is a small to medium-sized arboreal monitor lizard. It is known for its unusual coloration...
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    The mangrove monitor, mangrove goanna, or Western Pacific monitor lizard (Varanus indicus) is a member of the monitor lizard family with a large distribution...
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    confused with the sympatric black rough-necked monitor due to the large nuchal scales in both species, which is why Dumeril's monitors are sometimes called brown...
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    the earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus). Varanus includes the Komodo dragon (the largest living lizard), crocodile monitor, savannah monitor, the goannas...
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    Goanna (category Monitor lizards of Australia)
    water monitor – V. mertensi Spiny-tailed monitor – V. acanthurus (also ridge-tailed monitor) Mangrove monitor – V. semiremex Black-headed monitor – V....
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    The Northern Sierra Madre forest monitor (Varanus bitatawa), also known by the local names bitatawa, baritatawa, and butikaw, is a large, arboreal, frugivorous...
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    Australia, they are predated on by black-headed pythons. It is sympatric with the mangrove monitor and the peach-throated monitor in many parts of its range....
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