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The Yuwono monitor or tricolor monitor (Varanus yuwonoi), also commonly known as the black-backed mangrove monitor or the black-backed monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the blue-tailed monitor species complex. [2] [3] The tricolor monitor is endemic to the island of Halmahera, in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. [4]
The mangrove monitor, [4] mangrove goanna, or Western Pacific monitor lizard (Varanus indicus) is a member of the monitor lizard family with a large distribution from northern Australia and New Guinea to the Moluccas and Solomon Islands. It grows to lengths of 3.5 to 4 ft (1.1 to 1.2 m).
Varanus spinulosus, the Solomon Island spiny monitor, Isabel monitor, [1] [2] or spiny-neck monitor, [3] is a species of monitor lizard. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago and is also known from Santa Isabel Island , San Jorge Island ( Solomon Islands ) and Bourgainville Island ( Papua New Guinea ).
Varanus jobiensis belongs to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus, which includes species such as the blue-tailed monitor and mangrove monitor, both of which it is sympatric with in much of its range. It is likely that this species is actually a species complex of multiple different species that have been diverging since the Pliocene , and diverged from ...
The lace monitor is monotypic; no subspecies are recognised.However, genetic analysis of its mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) across its range revealed three main clades: a north Queensland clade separated by the Burdekin Gap from a clade spanning from southern Queensland through inland New South Wales across the Murray–Darling basin and into southeastern South Australia.
The spiny-tailed monitor, a somewhat small monitor lizard, can attain a total length of up to 70 cm (27 in), although there are unconfirmed reports of wild individuals growing up to 34 inches. [5] The tail is about 1.3-2.3 times as long as the head and body combined.
V. rainerguentheri mainly inhabits coastal environments including mangroves, thus filling an ecological niche similar to that held by the mangrove monitor (Varanus indicus) elsewhere. Little is known about the specific ecology and habits of V. rainerguentheri, though it is known to feed mainly on aquatic prey. [citation needed]
The Rennell Island monitor (Varanus juxtindicus) [4] is a species of monitor lizards found in the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is also known as the Hakoi monitor . [ 5 ] It belongs to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus along with the canopy goanna , the peach-throated monitor , Kalabeck's monitor , and others.