VARANUS SALVATOR DETAILS WATER MONITOR LEARN NAMES TAXON COLLECTION LINK ARTICLE OVERVIEW DETAIL DATA MEDIA MAPS COMMUNITY RESOURCES LITERATURE UPDATES TABLE OF CONTENTS PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION MORPHOLOGY ECOLOGY HABITAT STRATEGY LIFE HISTORY BEHAVIOR LIFE EXPECTANCY REPRODUCTION MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GENETICS CONSERVATION CONSERVATION STATUS TRENDS THREATS MANAGEMENT RELEVANCE HUMANS BENEFITS WIKIPEDIA PARTNER LINKS BIOMEDICAL TERMS NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES REFERENCES BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY DISTRIBUTION RANGE SPECIES SOUTHERN SOUTHEAST ASIA HORN SALVATOR ENDEMIC SOUTHERN ASIA SOUTHEAST FAR NORTH SOUTHERN CHINA BORNEO ANDAMAN ISLANDS JAVA LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS KOCH RECENT WORK NORTHEASTERN NORTHERN NORTHEASTERN THAILAND COASTAL LAOS EXCEPT RANGES VIETNAM BORDER NORTHWESTERN VIETNAM THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL STRIP SOUTH CHINA ADJACENT TIMOR SERAM LESSER SUNDA CHAIN COTA SWEET UPPER LIMIT ABOVE SEA LEVEL COMMON AREAS UP TO 600 M RARE HIGHER PARTICULARLY ABOVE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR NATURE NATURAL RESOURCES IUCN TRUSTED RATING PEOPLE DEFAULT OF 5 COMMENT RATE INDIA IN THE WEST THE PHILIPPINES ISLANDS ORIENTAL THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN ANIMAL DIVERSITY WEB NE INDIA NICOBAR ISLANDS MYANMAR CHINA THAILAND MALAYSIA PULAU TIOMAN PULAU BESAR INDONESIA TYPE LOCALITY PORT BLAIR WETAR NEIGHBOURING SUNDA AMPHOE SATUN RESTRICTED SRI LANKA AMERICA EMENDED CEYLON MERTENS OBI ISLAND KALI MALUKU PROVINCE CENTRAL PETER THE REPTILE DATABASE REPORTED GROW TO 3 METERS ADULTS INDIVIDUALS BLACK BAND YELLOW THE NECK MONITOR NOSTRILS CLOSE TO THE END TAIL DORSAL SCALES THE HEAD WHIL SMALLER SIZE COLOR OF DARK BROWN YELLOW SPOTS THE YELLOW OLDER LIVING RALPH CURTIS OPPORTUNISTIC VARIETY NATURAL PRIMARY FORESTS MANGROVE SWAMPS PRESENCE OF MAN MONITORS HUMAN DISTURBANCE THRIVE AGRICULTURAL OIL PALM CITIES CANAL SYSTEMS DISTURBED HUNTED PROSECUTED FOREST MEASURE SAFETY PIANKA GENERALIST DIET ECOLOGICAL PLASTICITY COMPLEX SEEM LESS HUMAN ACTIVITIES DO NOT GENERALLY REGIONS LOSS NATURAL VEGETATION HABITATS PARTS CANNOT MANGROVE SWAMP WETLANDS ALTITUDES BELOW WIDE RANGE SEEN RIVER BANKS CROSS EXPLAINING FLAT LAND BURROW RIVER ENTRANCE DOWNWARD SLOPE FORMING POOL AVERAGE LENGTH DEPTH TEMPERATURE DEGREES CELSIUS RIVERS STREAMS EXTREME MEANS LIZARD ANIMAL THE COMMON BIRDS MAMMALS JUVENILE KOMODO DRAGON DIG CORPSES HUNTING TECHNIQUE RATHER STALKING FAST POWERFUL LEG MUSCLES HUNTING SUBMERGED 30 MINUTES AGEING MAXIMUM JOAO PEDRO DE MAGALHAES MALES NORMALLY TWICE MATURATION THE MALE FEMALE BREEDING SEASON BEGINS LASTS TESTES LARGEST THUS INCREASE REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS FERTILIZATION TAKES FEMALES PRODUCE CLUTCH SIZE THE EGGS ROTTING BARCODE REPRESENTATIVE CENTROID AVAILABLE BOLD GENBANK SEQUENCE REGION CYTOCHROME OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1 MEMBER TAXONOMY BROWSER COMPLETE INFORMATION SPECIMEN FASTA FILE BARCODE OF LIFE DATA SYSTEMS STATISTICS PUBLIC RED LIST ASSESSMENT CATEGORY LEAST CONCERN VERSION ASSESSOR REVIEWER RED LIST INDEX JUSTIFICATION TAXONOMIC UNCERTAINTY ALREADY UNRAVEL MOLECULAR CORROBORATE UTMOST IMPORTANCE FUTURE CHANGES WARRANT REVIEW THE CONSERVATION STATUS SEEMS LEATHER TRADE FEDERAL SPECIAL APPENDIX THREATENED SPECIES POPULATION SPECIES GROUP THOUGHT SOME CITIES BANGKOK TREND UNKNOWN MAJOR THREAT COMES THE SKIN MEAT FAT TRADITIONAL MEDICINE THE ANNUAL CATCH THE SKIN TRADE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROTECTIVE LEGISLATION POPULATIONS TO GO LOCALLY EXTINCT RESILIENCE HIGH REPRODUCTIVE FACT HARVESTING CONCENTRATED DIRECT UTILIZATION DESTRUCTION FIREWOOD CAUSED DECLINES NUMBERS HABITAT LOSS REASON DISAPPEARED BENNETT BELIEF OIL EXTRACTED TRIVIAL THE NUMBERS ROAD TRAFFIC TOLERATE POLLUTED ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY HABITAT DEGRADATION COINCIDE PROTECTED YALA NATIONAL PARK THE HIGH DENSITY IN THE PARK RECENT CHANGES DNA SEQUENCING VALIDATE GENETIC DIFFERENCES ALTER TAXONOMY OF HENCE THE OUTCOME SKINS DIETARY PROTEIN CEREMONIES LEATHER GOODS ANNUAL TRADE IN REACH ANIMALS TOO TOUGH SHAPE SUITABLE MAJORITY FIREFIGHTING DELUGE GUN THE AUSTRALIAN SIMILAR COMMON NAMES