The crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii) is a large, arboreal monitor lizard endemic to New Guinea, found in mangrove swamps and coastal rainforest in both Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian region of West Papua. It is among the longest lizards alive, with an exceptionally long, prehensile tail that can be more than twice the length of its body, a blunt snout, and long, fang-like teeth suited to seizing fast-moving prey. It hunts birds, small mammals, other reptiles, and eggs as an apex predator within its habitat. It is not considered threatened, and the IUCN assesses it as Least Concern.
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Classification
Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Varanus, Taxa Source Crocodile Monitor (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Crocodile Monitor (Wikidata)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: South Asia, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Varanus salvadorii
Wikipedia- the lizard is sometimes hunted and skinned by tribesmen to make drums
Introduction
It is not considered threatened, and the IUCN assesses it as Least Concern.
View the Source 2. Crocodile Monitor (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q940883 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Varanus, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon)
- In Biome: Mangrove Forest, Introduction
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