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Varanus caudolineatus (Line-tailed Pygmy Monitor)

Wikipedia Abstract

The stripe-tailed goanna (Varanus caudolineatus) is a species of monitor lizard native to the forests of Western Australia. They grow to around 91 mm in snout to vent length. Its favoured habitats are grasslands, woodlands, and shrublands, and it appears to inhabit a wide range of habitats dominated by acacia and spinifex.
View Wikipedia Record: Varanus caudolineatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.3 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Female Weight [2]  14 grams
Gestation [2]  77 days
Litter Size [4]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Rhynchoedura ornata (Beaked Gecko)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Varanus gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)1

Predators

Varanus gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)[4]
Varanus tristis orientalis (Black-tailed Monitor, Black-headed Monitor)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Abbreviata levicauda <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Comparative ecology of Varanus in the Great Victoria Desert, Eric R. Pianka, Australian Journal of Ecology (1994) 19, 395-408
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0