It is published that V.brevicauda is the smallest, but thats not entirely true. The published shortest SV lenght, belongs to V.kingorum. But those little fellas have a long tail. As opposed to Brevis having a short tail.



In reality, there are several small monitors that can claim that. For instance, some populations of Caudos are very small, in that 8 inch range. As well as some populations of Brevis are much larger, in the 12 inch range(nw part of the range).



If your from the states, then your choice is V.caudo, as thats the only really small monitor availible here. At one time, V.kingorum was availible, and I hear it still is in Europe. Good luck. F

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• Smallest species of Monitor? - Lucien, Tue Jan 20 23:05:03 2004
• I believe its V. Caudolineatus - Oscar Parsons, Tue Jan 20 23:08:37 2004
• So much for beleif. I suck. - Oscar Parsons, Tue Jan 20 23:57:05 2004
• Varanus brevicauda - crocdoc2, Tue Jan 20 23:15:01 2004
• RE: Smallest species of Monitor? - FR, Wed Jan 21 11:36:54 2004
• RE: Smallest species of Monitor? - Lucien, Wed Jan 21 14:38:48 2004
• no more kingoru min the US? - RonW, Thu Jan 22 02:43:37 2004
• RE: no more kingoru min the US? - andrew owen, Thu Jan 22 09:23:11 2004