Lizards Gallery

Lace Monitor lizard (Varanus varius) on leaves, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales, Australia

The Lace Monitor or Lace Goanna, (Varanus varius), is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas. Lace monitors are the second-largest monitor in Australia after the Perentie. They can be as long as 2.1 meters (over 6ft 10ins) with a head and body length of up to 76.5 cm (2Aoe ft)

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Lounge Lizard

Water Dragon resting on tree branch at Wattamolla Beach, Royal National Park, Australia

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Perentie monitor lizard eating snake

Richly patterened big Perentie monitor lizard (Varanus giganteus) eating snake in arid habitat of dry scrub and gravel, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

© 2011 Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott - registered at U.S. Library of Congress Office

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