Australian spiny-tailed monitors
This group contains the following australian species:
V. acanthurus, V. baritji, V. primordius and V. storri.
These species are spiny-tailed and small-sized (total length between 25 and 70 cm).
See their own knowledge base in order to recognize each species.
Australian spiny-tailed monitors
Easy-to-see descriptors
- transversal section of the tail : roundish
- "spiny"tail : presence
- tail with median double-keel : absence
- bicoloured tail : absence
- position of nostrils between eyes and tip of snout : same distance from eyes than from tip of snout ; nearer the tip of snout than the eyes
- nostrils' form : well round
- tongue coloration : ?
- prehensile tail : absence
- nuchal scales : same size than head scales
- form of the snout : triangular
- pale band on the snout : absence
- relief of nuchal scales : not applicable
Expert descriptors
- direction of nostrils : laterally directed ; dorso-laterally directed
- other head scales : not applicable
- supra-ocular scales : no specific pattern or scales of head homogenous in size
- SVL - snout vent length : up to 40 centimeters
- scale count around midbody : ?
- Origin of the specimen : continental Australia