>>Is any locality information available? I am expecting some shortly.
>>-----
>>"Life without risk is to merely exist."

The only pure melanistic (black) race of Varanus salvator is Varanus salvator komaini (Nuthphand 1987), which is only found in La-Ngu District and some nearby islands off shore from it which also belong La-Ngu District in Satun Province, Thailand. Unless the ones available are the progeny of the only ones ever bred in captivity quite recently in Costa Rica by Quetzal Dwyer and Monica Perez, they have been smuggled out of Thailand, which prohibits the export of monitor lizards.

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• Black Water Monitor - Sighthunter, Sun Oct 21 21:05:28 2007
• RE: Black Water Monitor - mrcota, Mon Oct 22 01:32:09 2007
• RE: So how come - FR, Mon Oct 22 09:20:06 2007
• This is why - mrcota, Tue Oct 23 02:36:23 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 09:42:04 2007
• RE: This is why - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 12:06:13 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 13:14:21 2007
• I must have missed the slander... - qiksilver5, Tue Oct 23 16:07:31 2007
• RE: No it was not slander, yet - FR, Tue Oct 23 16:55:29 2007
• RE: No it was not slander, yet - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 18:19:49 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Tue Oct 23 18:19:57 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 20:01:38 2007
• RE: This is why - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 21:31:59 2007
• RE: This is why - mrcota, Thu Oct 25 04:41:07 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Thu Oct 25 08:41:51 2007
• RE: This is why - mrcota, Thu Oct 25 10:08:40 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Thu Oct 25 10:59:31 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Thu Oct 25 15:00:00 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Thu Oct 25 19:13:10 2007
• Maybe the problem is a Thai issue. - SHvar, Fri Oct 26 11:33:19 2007
• RE: Maybe the problem is a Thai issue. - FR, Fri Oct 26 18:00:59 2007
• How about this.. - SHvar, Sat Oct 27 11:25:26 2007
• FR, you know.. - SHvar, Sun Oct 28 11:14:29 2007
• RE: This is why - monitormanUK, Fri Oct 26 06:23:14 2007
• RE: This is why - MadAxeMan, Fri Oct 26 07:54:41 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Fri Oct 26 10:46:06 2007
• The problems with laws. - SHvar, Tue Oct 23 22:27:34 2007
• Bribe? - Sighthunter, Wed Oct 24 01:01:24 2007
• A link - Sighthunter, Wed Oct 24 11:34:13 2007
• RE: A link - MikesMonitors, Wed Oct 24 12:18:49 2007
• Dibbs!!! - woodsrider, Mon Oct 22 09:48:55 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 12:56:58 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - woodsrider, Tue Oct 23 15:28:45 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 18:08:36 2007