from all that i have read and experienced, black and white throat monitors are the same size varrying from 4-6' . True cape banded white throats are smaller in the 3-4' range, sometimes obtaining 5ft, the term cape banded is what I consider the south african banded whitethroat, which are smaller and alot harder to find. Everything that has been on the classifieds lately are just whitethroats, of various localities tanzanian, mozambique, gana etc..... and these are the ones that get just as big as blackthroats.

regular whitethroat



another "regular"



three baby tanzanian albigs



ionedesi or blackthroat albigularis



banded cape whitethroat monitors







another regular but different whitethroat monitor





as you can see they are a tremendously varied species, just as much if not more than lace monitors, v.varius i have others too but i didnt post, its a "regular" but is banded it is thought to be of mozambique locality, very distinctly banded not as dark as the cape banded whitethroats. Sadly this monitor has passed away from sepsis last week, i would love to get others like her.

hope this helps you out some please let me know if you have any other questions, email me at scottmoser@verizon.net

scott

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