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Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar. A member of the monitor lizard family Varanidae, it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 metres (10 ft) in rare cases and weighing up to approximately 70 kilograms (150 lb).
View Wikipedia Record: Varanus komodoensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Varanus komodoensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  191.803 lbs (87.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  100 grams
Female Weight [3]  73.577 lbs (33.374 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Egg Length [3]  3.346 inches (85 mm)
Egg Width [3]  2.165 inches (55 mm)
Gestation [1]  49 days
Litter Size [1]  22
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  25 years
Reproductive Mode [4]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.477 feet (106 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  5 years
Male Maturity [1]  5 years
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Lesser Sundas deciduous forests Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Komodo National Park II 514967 Indonesia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia Yes

Emblem of

Indonesia

Prey / Diet

Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo)[5]
Rusa timorensis (Timor deer)[5]
Sus scrofa (wild boar)[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Meiri, 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
♦ 5Monitoring the ungulate prey of komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) using faecal counts, Tim S. Jessop, David M. Forsyth, Deni Purwandana, Jeri Imansyah, Devi S. Opat and Eve McDonald-Madden, (2005) Zoological Society of San Diego, USA, and the Komodo National Park Authority, Labuan Bajo, Flores, Indonesia. p. 26
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