Turquoise monitor

Turquoise monitor
Conservation status
CITES Appendix II  [1]
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Anguimorpha
Family:	Varanidae
Genus:	Varanus
Subgenus:	Euprepiosaurus
Species:	V. caerulivirens
Binomial name
Varanus caerulivirens Ziegler, Böhme, & Philipp, 1999 [3]

The turquoise monitor (Varanus caerulivirens) ^[4] is a species of monitor lizards found in Indonesia. Specifically, it is found on Halmahera Island and in the Maluku Islands. ^[5]

Turquoise monitor

Description

The main coloration of the turquoise monitor is black-brown and greyish-brown with some turquoise pattern. ^[6] The underside coloration is light yellowish to turquoise with a blackish pattern. The throat and lower part of the neck of this monitor lizard is mostly yellowish. Varanus caerulivirens can grow up to about 110 cm in total length. ^[3]

The diet of Varanus caerulivirens mainly consists of crustaceans, scorpions, grasshoppers and frogs. ^[3]

References

1. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
2. Stubbs, A.; Shea, G.; Arida, E.; Koch, A. (2021). "Varanus caerulivirens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021 e.T83777607A83777611. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
3. "Monitor-lizards.net". (Viewed April 4, 2010).
4. Indonesiangamer.com
5. JCVI.org ^{[ permanent dead link ]} (Viewed April 3, 2010).
6. "Varanus.nl". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-09-25.

• Varanidae.org

Further reading

• Ast, Jennifer C. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA Evidence and Evolution in Varanoidea (Squamata). Cladistics 17 (3): 211-226 [erratum in 18 (1):125]
• Koch A, Arida E, Schmitz A, Böhme W, Ziegler T. 2009. Refining the polytypic species concept of mangrove monitors (Squamata: Varanus indicus group): a new cryptic species from the Talaud Islands, Indonesia, reveals the underestimated diversity of Indo-Australian monitor lizards. Australian Journal of Zoology 57(1): 29-40
• Lisle, H. de 2007. Varanus caerulivirens (Turquoise Monitor). Reproduction. Biawak 1 (1): 39-40
• PHILIPP, K. M., ZIEGLER, T. & W. BÖHME 1999. Der Türkiswaran Varanus caerulivirens ZIEGLER, BÖHME & PHILIPP, 1999. Herpetofauna 21 (122): 10-11
• Philipp,K.M.; Ziegler, T. & Böhme, W. 2007. Preliminary Investigations of the Natural Diet of Six Monitor Lizard Species of the Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) indicus Group. Mertensiella 16: 336-345
• Ziegler, T., Schmitz, A., Koch, A. & W. Böhme 2007. A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups. Zootaxa 1472: 1-28
• Ziegler, T., W. Böhme & K. M. Philipp 1999. Varanus caerulivirens sp. n., a new monitor lizard of the V. indicus group from Halmahera, Moluccas, Indonesia (Squamata: Sauria: Varanidae). Herpetozoa 12 (1/2): 45-56