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Bogert's monitor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bogert's monitor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Varanidae
Genus: Varanus
Subgenus: Hapturosaurus
Species:
V. bogerti
Binomial name
Varanus bogerti
Mertens, 1950
Synonyms[2]
  • Varanus prasinus bogerti
    Mertens, 1950
  • Varanus bogerti
    — Sprackland, 1991
  • Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) bogerti
    Ziegler et al., 2007
  • Varanus (Hapturosaurus) bogerti
    — Bucklitsch et al., 2016

Bogert's monitor (Varanus bogerti) is a species of tree-dwelling lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is native to Papua New Guinea.[1]

Etymology

Both the specific name, bogerti, and the common name, Bogert's monitor, are in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert.[3]

Geographic range

V. bogerti is found on the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of V. bogerti is forest at altitudes from sea level to 400 m (1,300 ft).[1]

Reproduction

V. bogerti is an oviparous species.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Tallowin, O.; Shea, G.; Allison, A. (2016). "Varanus bogerti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T42485692A42485697. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T42485692A42485697.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Species Varanus bogerti at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Varanus bogerti, p. 30).

Further reading

  • Koch A, Ernst N, Eidenmüller B, Kraus F (2014). "New data on the rare Varanus bogerti Mertens, 1950 and V. telenesetes Sprackland, 1991 (Squamata: Varanidae), two endemic monitor lizard taxa from island groups off southeastern New Guinea". Herpetological Journal 24 (2): 111–122.
  • Mertens R (1950). "Notes on some Indo-Australian monitors (Sauria, Varanidae)". American Museum Novitates (1456): 1–7. (Varanus prasinus bogerti, new subspecies, pp. 3–6, Figure 1),
  • Ziegler T, Schmitz A, Koch A, Böhme W (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.


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