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has anybody seen this monitor before, or have any info on it? Pretty interesting and colorful...

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Looks like a peachthroat to me. What makes you call it a new species? The coloration is slightly unusual, but the scales, head, look all jobiensis, at least to me.

--Robert

Looks like another jobiensis to me also, Bob. New Guinea is a big place (around 860,000 sq km last I looked), and jobiensis-like animals occur pretty much throughout the island below about 6,000'. The higher mountain ranges do a good job of dividing up lowland forests both along the coast and in interior basins, and it would be unusual if there was not a fair bit of regional variation in the wide-ranging monitor species.

Nice animal, though.

As was said it is a peachthroat, nothing more nothing less. It does have nice coloration but it screams I am a v.jobiensis.

I was on hank molt's site and he described it as being a new species. That's why I asked, I thought it looked peachie, but I have never seen a peachthroat with that patterning or coloration.

On a side note, I have heard that there are two newly discovered indo monitors, awaiting to be named. One of them is another prasinus type tree monitor, which is described as being a mixture of a boehmei and macraei, with orange brilliant orange coloration on the neck(?). I was talking with jimmy down at d&j about his trip to indo to see his brother, and he told me that one of the two new monitors may be labeled as V. gormani, after his bro. Jim said that the other is a doreanus-type monitor.I believe that a specimen was sent to germany to Boehme, to be analized and studied. There are thousands of indonesian islands out there, who knows what they'll find next? take care everybody,

bm
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didn't you guys get banned from the forum for the ol' pudenda monologues?? Glad to see y'all back...

bob
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