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Help to ID my garden lizard

Quickster Aug 21, 2004 03:16 PM

I have this pic, was tacken in my garden back in South Africa but sure its an exotic as I cant find it in my local book related subjects.
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HERPSA

Replies (3)

Scott Eipper Aug 22, 2004 04:44 AM

Are you sure its an exotic?...looks like a young Nile Monitor Varanus niloticus to me.

Regards,

Scott Eipper

Quickster Aug 22, 2004 12:28 PM

Hey thanx man, It looks like a monitor of some sort but not sure what as the ones found in my area are rock or water monitors not nile. But will check it.

Thankyou for your feedback, much appriciated.
Regards

Scott Eipper Aug 23, 2004 05:53 AM

If you are in South Africa and its native it is a nile monitor...get the book snakes and other reptiles of Southern Africa by Bill Branch..published by Struick books.

Scott

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