Gray's monitor

Gray's monitor

Taxobox
name = Gray's Monitor
status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Varanidae
genus = "Varanus"
species = "V. olivaceus"
binomial = "Varanus olivaceus"
binomial_authority =

Gray's monitor, "Varanus olivaceus" is a large (180 cm, >9 kg) monitor lizard known only from lowland dipterocarp forest in the east of Luzon and a few smaller adjacent islands in the Philippines, where it is locally known as the "Butaan". It is largely arboreal and extremely shy. It is classed as vulnerable by the IUCN because most of its habitat has been destroyed over the last 60 years. Its diet consists mainly of fruit and snails.

Bibliography

* Auffenberg, W. 1988. Gray's Monitor Lizard. University of Florida Press, Gainesville
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References

External links

* [http://www.mampam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=1 The Butaan Project]
* [http://www.mampam.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=34 The Butaan Project - Background and History]
* [http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/wildkingdom/butaan/about/about.html Butaan:The Lost Dragon]


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