Varanus niloticus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Stays close to water, and can dive for up to one hour. It is very agile on land and in the water. It is diurnal .

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 45 meters (147 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Biology

Reproduction

Combat between males is frequently observed during the breeding season in some species. Monitors lay 7 to 35 soft-shelled eggs , usually deposited in holes in riverbanks or in trees along water courses . The Nile monitor often lays its eggs in termite nests . There is little or no sexual dimorphism (difference in appearance ).

Eggs are 2 inches long with leathery shells . Incubation is 8 to 10 weeks. The young use an egg tooth to emerge .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lacerta capensis Sparrman 1783: 749 • Lacerta monitor Linnaeus 1758: 201 • Lacerta nilotica Linnaeus 1766: 369 • Lacertus tupinambis LACÉPÈDE 1788< /i> (In Part) • Monitor elegans senegalensis Schlegel 1844 • Monitor niloticus Lichtenstein 1818 • Monitor pulcher Leach in Bowdich 1819 • Stellio saurus Laurenti 1768: 56 • Tupinambis elegans DAUDIN 1802< /i> (In Part) • Tupinambis stellatus DAUDIN 1802< /i> (In Part) • Varanus niloticus — Ast 2001 • Varanus niloticus — Auerbach 1987: 136 • Varanus niloticus — Boulenger 1885: 317 • Varanus niloticus — De Lisle 1996: 131 • Varanus niloticus — DumÉril & Bibron 1836: 476 • Varanus niloticus — Fitzinger 1826: 50 • Varanus niloticus — Schmidt 1919: 485 • Varanus< /i> (Polydaedalus) Niloticus - Mertens 1942

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: SCHMIDT’s Varanus niloticus might represent both V. niloticus (specimens from savanna localities) and V. ornatus (specimens from rain forest localities). For a detailed distrubtion map and locality data see BAYLESS (2002).

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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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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Carnegie Museums: Amphibians and Reptiles
• GBIF-Sweden: Herpetology (NRM)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546407
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-7673
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13765196
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 683047
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ARACM01020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177763

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 983.600 based on 18 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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