Varanus prasinus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Monitor beccarii Doria 1874: 331 • Monitor prasinus Schlegel 1839: 78 • Monitor viridis Gray 1831: 26 (Nomen Dubium Fide Mertens 1963) • Varanus kordensis — Boulenger 1885: 322 • Varanus kordensis — Boulenger 1895: 28 • Varanus kordensis — BÖhme 2002 • Varanus kordensis — De Rooij 1915: 152 • Varanus kordensis — Jacobs 2003 • Varanus prasinus kordensis — Mertens 1942 • Varanus prasinus prasinus — Mertens 1942 • Varanus prasinus — Bleeker 1856 • Varanus prasinus — Boulenger 1885: 321 • Varanus prasinus — Cogger 2000: 371 • Varanus prasinus — De Lisle 1996: 132 • Varanus prasinus — De Rooij 1915: 151 • Varanus prasinus — Sprackland 1991 • Varanus< /i> (Euprepiosaurus) Prasinus — Ziegler Et Al. 2007

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Syntypes: (3), MCG C. E. 28723, other syntypes not found fide COGGER 1983, from Wokam (as Wokan), Aru Ils., Indonesia [Monitor beccarii] Synonym partly after COGGER 1983 and MERTENS 1963. V. kordensis has been previously synonymzed with V. prasinus. However, JACOBS (2002) provides evidence that prasinus and kordensis are different species.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Varanus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 55 species and subspecies in this genus:

V. acanthurus (Spiny-Tailed Monitor) · V. albigularis (White-Throated Monitor) · V. albigularis albigularis (White-Throated Monitor Lizard) · V. baritji (Black-Spotted Ridge-Tailed Momitor) · V. beccarii (Black Tree Monitor) · V. bengalensis (Bengal Monitor Lizard) · V. bogerti (Bogert's Monitor) · V. brevicauda (Short-Tailed Pygmy Monitor) · V. caerulivirens (Turquoise Monitor) · V. caudolineatus (Line-Tailed Pygmy Monitor) · V. doreanus (Bluetail Monitor) · V. dumerilii (Dumeril Monitor) · V. eremius (Rusty Desert Monitor) · V. exanthematicus (Savannah Monitor Lizard) · V. finschi (Finsch's Monitor) · V. flavescens (Calcutta Oval-Grain Lizard) · V. giganteus (Perentie) · V. gilleni (Pigmy Mulga Monitor) · V. glauerti (Glauert's Monitor) · V. glebopalma (Black-Palmed Rock Monitor) · V. gouldii (Sand Goanna) · V. griseus (Desert Monitor) · V. griseus griseus (Desert Monitor) · V. indicus (Indian Monitor Lizard) · V. indicus rouxi (Indian Monitor Lizard) · V. jobiensis (Peach-Throated Monitor) · V. keithhornei (Nesbit River Monitor) · V. kingorum (Pygmy Rock Monitor) · V. komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) · V. mabitang (Panay Monitor Lizard) · V. mertensi (Mertens's Water Monitor) · V. nebulosus (Clouded Monitor) · V. niloticus (Nile Monitor) · V. olivaceus (Gray's Monitor) · V. panoptes (Argus Monitor) · V. panoptes panoptes (Yellow-Spotted Monitor) · V. pilbarensis (Pilbara Rock Monitor) · V. prasinus (Green Tree Monitor) · V. primordius (Northern Blunt-Spined Monitor) · V. rosenbergi (Heath Monitor) · V. rudicollis (Roughneck Monitor) · V. salvadori (Crocodile Monitor Lizard) · V. salvadorii (Crocodile Monitor) · V. salvator (Common Water Monitor) · V. salvator salvator (Common Water Monitor) · V. salvator togianus (Common Water Monitor) · V. scalaris (Banded Tree Monitor) · V. salvator subsp. salvator (Common Water Monitor) · V. spenceri (Spencer's Monitor) · V. spinulosus (Solomon Island Spiny Monitor) · V. storri (Storr's Monitor) · V. timorensis (Spotted Tree Monitor) · V. tristis (Black-Headed Monitor) · V. varius (Lace Monitor) · V. yemenensis (Yemen Monitor)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the zoögeography of the East Indian islands / 1912 Cambridge, U.S.A.: printed for the Museum, 1912. url p. 183.
• An annotated list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea / by G.A. Boulenger. London: Zoological Society of London, 1914. url p. 256.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 77 1934 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 256, p. 333.
• Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 144, p. 235, p. 236.
• Checklist of CITES Species and Annotated CITES Appendices and Reservations CITES Secretariat, UNEP-WCMC url p. 413.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 119, p. 235, p. 237, p. 118, p. 154, p. 246, p. 247.
• Checklist of reptiles and amphibians listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 103.
• Chinese herpetological research. 2 1989 Berkeley, Calif.: Chinese Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, [1988-1989] url p. 30.
• Diet and arboreality in the emerald monitor, Varanus prasinus: with comments on the study of adaptation: a contribution in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / Harry W. Greene. 31 1986 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1986. url fig. 2 , wrapper , fig. 1 , fig. 7 , p. 1, p. 10, p. 11, p. 2, p. 3, p. 4, p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9, p. i, p. iii.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 204.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 1137, p. 497, p. 88.
• Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H. M. S. 'Alert' 1881-2. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1884. url .
• Reptilia and Batrachia / by George A. Boulenger. London: Taylor and Francis, 1890. url p. 161.
• Reptilia and Batrachia. By George A. Boulenger. London: Taylor and Francis, 1890. url p. 161.
• Reptilia and batrachia. By George A. Boulenger. London, Taylor and Francis, [etc., etc.]1890. url p. 161.
• Spixiana. München: Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1977- url p. 282.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 100, p. 101, p. 103, p. 251, p. 273, p. 37, p. 39.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 300.
• The IUCN Amphibia-Reptilia Red Data Book. Part 1 Testudines Crocodylia and Rhynchocephalia IUCN url p. 244.
• The natural history of animals: the animal life of the world in its various aspects and relations, London, The Gresham Publishing Company, 1903-04. url .
• The reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago / by Nelly de Rooij. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1915-1917. url p. 151, p. 151, p. 363, p. 363, p. 381, p. 381.
• The royal natural history. With pref. by P. L. Sclater. Illustrated with 72 col. plates and 1600 engravings. London, F. Warne, 1893-96. url p. 152.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 1986 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 170, p. 171, p. 201.
• World Checklist of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 49, p. 50, p. 84, p. 89.
• World Checklists of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Nature Conservancy Council url p. 43.
• Zoological results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Cambridge [Eng.]University Press1902 url p. 604.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546414
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-7678
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 643361

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