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  2. Yellow-spotted monitor - Wikipedia

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    The yellow-spotted monitor [1] [2] [3] (Varanus panoptes), also known as the Argus monitor, [4] is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia and southern New Guinea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  3. Perentie - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Monitor lizard - Wikipedia

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    Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. ... Argus monitor; V. p. horni, Horn's monitor; V. p. rubidus, ...

  5. Varanus (Varanus) - Wikipedia

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    Among them, desert-dwelling true monitors (the Perentie, the Sand goanna, the Argus monitor, the Rosenberg's monitor and the Spencer's goanna) all remain a status of least concern on the IUCN Red List with their populations large and stable. [5]

  6. Goanna - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Sand goanna - Wikipedia

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    Eromanga, Queensland. A species of Varanus, lizards known as monitors and goannas, that is found in a variety of habitat.Due to the taxonomic uncertainty during the twentieth century the species form and behaviour has included taxa later recognised as distinct species, this includes V. rosenbergi, formerly treated as a subspecies and later elevated, and V. panoptes, described as a new species ...

  8. Nile monitor - Wikipedia

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    The Nile monitor is Africa's longest lizard. [14] They grow from about 120 to 220 cm (3 ft 11 in to 7 ft 3 in) in length, with the largest specimens attaining 244 cm ...

  9. Yellow monitor - Wikipedia

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    The yellow monitor is a medium-sized monitor, measuring between 45 and 95 cm (18 and 37 in) including the tail and weighing up to 1.45 kg (3.2 lb). [2] It has subcorneal teeth, scarcely compressed. Its snout is short and convex, measuring a little less than the distance from the anterior border of the orbit to the anterior border of the ear ...