Varanus reisingeri

Appearance

Small slender wood monitor lizard. It can reach a length from the tip of the muzzle to the cloaca of 30 cm and a total length of 80 cm. Like many tree lizards, Varanus reisingeri has a long, tenacious tail that helps it when climbing trees. This monitor lizard differs from closely related species, such as smaragdine monitor lizard ( Varanus prasinus ) and monitor lizard Makrei ( V. macraei ), black back with a pattern consisting of bright yellow spots and eyes located in 16 transverse rows. The color of the abdominal side is from yellow to whitish.

Distribution

The Varanus reisingeri range is bounded by Misool Island, located southwest of the Wogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea , Indonesia .

Lifestyle

Pretty little is known about the lifestyle and ecology of this species. Like closely related species, Varanus reisingeri lives in tropical forests, where it is held mainly in the crowns of trees. Daily activity. It feeds mainly on insects and other invertebrates , and can eat small vertebrates . In captivity, according to Jacobs (2008), the female lays several clutches up to 4 eggs in size. When eggs were incubated in wet vermiculite (at a temperature of about 29 ° C), young appeared after 175 days. The body length of newborns from 220 to 245 mm, weight - from 10 to 12.5 g.

Varanus reisingeri belongs to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus . Together with related species ( V. boehmei , V. bogerti , V. keithhornei , V. kordensis , V. macraei , V. prasinus , V. telenesetes ) forms a complex of species V. prasinus .

• Varanus reisingeri (inaccessible link) at aru-sorong.de
• Varanus reisingeri on monitor-lizards.net
• Varanus reisingeri at The Reptile Database