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Water Monitor
Varanus salvator salvator
6.4532, 80.6255
Field Notes
Description:
Large monitor lizard, dark blue-black in color with yellow pattern all over the body, but particularly dense on the tail. If my memory is correct, this one was somewhere about 1,5 m in length. This species shows a muscular body, with long, powerful, laterally compressed tails. The tongue is dark and split.
Habitat:
Arboreal lizard, living close to water. We observed it climbing trees on the banks of river, lazily; but our guide (and some literature) say they can be very quick when climbing and even leaping from branch to branch.
Notes:
Common Water Monitor or Asian Water Monitor is a large species of lizard, common to South-east Asia. The subspecies V. s. salvator is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Apologize for the poor quality of photos - as many from my collection, they are very old, taken in times before digital cameras, and were scanned later on.
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