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Order: Squamata (Lacertilia); Family: Varanidae
Monitor lizard. Large sized lizard. It is the largest lizard in India.
Was basking in the sun on a huge fallen tree trunk.
Also known as Clouded Monitor in some other countries.
Monitor lizard peeking over a snag in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Found this guy high up a huge tree,more than 15m above the ground. He ...
I found this beautiful juvenile monitor in one of my favorite locations ...
and other monitor lizards. Had previously been listed as a subspecies of
Large terrestrial monitor lizard, dark brown in color and some 1,5m in length. ...
About 1 m from snout to the tip of the tail, no apparent markings or patterns, ...
This lizard is visitor to my kitchen window once in a fortnight. Crawls ...
Bengal monitors grew more than 150 cms in length. This is a small specimen ...
Photographed this beauty at a farmhouse...Young monitors tend to live on ...
A large Land monitor, spotted in Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka. Land ...
Saw this one in Mrugavani National Park in Hyderabad, I think it is a juvenile ...
Sri Lanka's Land Monitor , this can climb trees. Can run fast in pursuit of ...
Grey colour. No pattern on skin.
Adult olive, grey or brownish above with sparse black spots, yellowish below, ...
An impressive 1.5m (5ft) long Bengal Monitor Lizard happened to stroll my ...
