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    Species Accepted

    Varanus komodoensis Ouwens, 1912

    Komodo Dragon
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Varanus
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      54 results
      Biawak Komodo Indonesian
      Biawak raksasa Not specified
      Buaya darat Not specified
      Drago di Komodo Italian
      Dragon de Komodo French
      Dragon des Komodos French
      Dragão-de-komodo Portuguese
      Jättiläisvaraani Finnish
      Komoda varano Esperanto
      Komodho Javanese

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      1 result
      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      64 results
      ZDUNEK, PRZEMYSŁAW & KRZYSZTOF KOLENDA. (2022). The threat of discarded food and drinks containers to monitor lizards. The Herpetological Bulletin 161: 28–30.
      Lisle, & de, H. F. (1996). Natural History of Monitor Lizards. Krieger, Malabar (Florida).
      Amer, Sayed A. M. and Yoshinori Kumazawa. (2008). Timing of a mtDNA gene rearrangement and intercontinental dispersal of varanid lizards. Genes Genet. Syst. 83: 275–280.
      PACKARD, GARY C. and THOMAS J. BOARDMAN. (2009). Bias in interspecific allometry: examples from morphological scaling in varanid lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 96, 296–305.
      Kubota, M., Hallermann, J., Beerlink, A., & Haas, A. (2024). The skull morphology of the Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis (Reptilia, Squamata, Varanidae)—a digital-dissection study. Evolutionary Systematics, 8, 219-245.
      Fischer, Oliver, & Marion Zahner. (2021). Ein neues Zuhause für Komodowarane über den Dächern von Wien. Elaphe 2021 (1): 44-62 [Published Online Dec 2020].
      Tänzer, E.L. & J.W.C. Van Heurn. (1938). Observations made by E. L.Tänzer and Jhr. W.C.van Heurn with reference to the propagation of the Varanus komodoensis Ouw. Treubia 16 (3):365-368.
      de Rooij, & de, N. (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), Xiv + 384 Pp.
      Bull, J. J.; Tim S. Jessop, Marvin Whiteley. (2010). Deathly Drool: Evolutionary and Ecological Basis of Septic Bacteria in Komodo Dragon Mouths. PLoS One 5 (6): E11097.
      Williams, C., Kirby, A., Marghoub, A., Kéver, L., Ostashevskaya‐Gohstand, S., Bertazzo, S., ... & Vickaryous, M. (2021). A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata). Biological Reviews.

      Citation

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