REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: VARANIDAE: Varanus

Varanus exanthematicus (Bosc, 1792)

Savannah monitor / Bosc's monitor

Photos & text by Dr. Robert Sprackland.

Right: typical adult specimen in the collection of Andy Rowell.

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Type Specimen: Presumably lost. The specimen illustrated below (MHNP Va 3/2 6511) is from the type locality and may be the missing type.

Literature: Click on a book to order a copy

Bennett, Daniel. 1998. Monitor lizards: Natural history, biology & husbandry. Edition Chimaira. ISBN: 3-930612-10-0.

Eidenmüller, Bernd. 1997. Warane: Lebensweise, Pflege, Zucht. Herpeton, Offenbach. In German. ISBN: 3-9802892-7-3. 

Sprackland, Robert. 2001. Savannah & Grassland Monitors. Advanced Vivarium Systems. ISBN: 1-882770-53-6.

Sprackland, Robert. 1992. Giant Lizards. TFH Publications. ISBN: 0-86622-634-6.