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    Species Accepted

    Varanus melinus Böhme & Ziegler, 1997

    Banggai Island monitor
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Varanus
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      12 results
      Banggai Island monitor English
      Biawak kuning Indonesian
      Kweepeervaraan Dutch
      Quince Monitor English
      Quittenwaran German
      Varan jaune coing French
      varan molucký Czech
      ورل جزيرة بانجاي Arabic
      ورل سفرجلي Arabic
      ตะกวดควินส์ Thai

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      26 results
      Ziegler, T., & Wolfgang Böhme, A. S. (2007). A new species of the Varanus indicus group (Squamata, Varanidae) from Halmahera Island, Moluccas: morphological and molecular evidence. Mitteilungen Aus Dem Museum Für Naturkunde in Berlin 83 (S1): 109-119.
      Weijola, Valter, & Fred Kraus. (2023). Two new species of monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanus) endemic to the Louisiade and Tanimbar Archipelagos with a key to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus. Journal of Natural History 57 (13–16): 947–975.
      Weijola, Valter; Varpu Vahtera, Christer Lindqvist, Fred Kraus. (2019). A molecular phylogeny for the Pacific monitor lizards (Varanus subgenus Euprepiosaurus) reveals a recent and rapid radiation with high levels of cryptic diversity. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1053–1066.
      Böhme, W., & ZIEGLER, T. (1997). Varanus melinus sp. n., ein neuer Waran aus der V. indicus-Gruppe von den Molukken, Indonesien. Herpetofauna 19 (111): 26-34.
      Böhme, & Wolfgang. (2014). Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. Vi + 256 Pp.
      Ast, Jennifer C. (2001). Mitochondrial DNA Evidence and Evolution in Varanoidea (Squamata). Cladistics 17 (3): 211-226 [Erratum in 18 (1):125].
      Pianka, Eric R. (2012). Can humans share spaceship earth? Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 6 (1): 1-24.
      Auliya, M. (2003). HOT TRADE IN COOL CREATURES - A review of the live reptile trade in the European Union in the 1990s with a focus on Germany. TRAFFIC Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 112 Pp.
      Böhme, W. (2003). Checklist of the living monitor lizards of the world (family Varanidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 341: 6-43.
      FRÝDLOVÁ, & PETRA and DANIEL FRYNTA. (2010). A test of Rensch’s rule in varanid lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 293–306.

      Citation

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