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Varanus gilleni (Pygmy Mulga Monitor)

Wikipedia Abstract

The pygmy mulga monitor or stripe-tailed goanna (Varanus gilleni ) is a species of monitor lizard native to northwestern and central Australia.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Male Weight [2]  65 grams
Egg Length [2]  1.063 inches (27 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.63 inches (16 mm)
Gestation [2]  3 months 8 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  5 inches (13 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Heteronotia binoei (Prickly Gecko, Bynoe's Gecko)[4]

Predators

Varanus gouldii (Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna)[4]

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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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