Varanus reisingeri

Varanus reisingeri, known commonly as Reisinger's tree monitor and the Yellow tree monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.

Varanus reisingeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Varanidae
Genus: Varanus
Subgenus: Hapturosaurus
Species:
V. reisingeri
Binomial name
Varanus reisingeri
Eidenmüller & Wicker, 2005
Synonyms[2]
  • Varanus reisingeri
    Eidenmüller & Wicker, 2005
  • Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) reisingeri
    — Ziegler et al. 2007
  • Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) prasinus reisingeri
    — Bucklitsch et al., 2016

Etymology

The specific name, reisingeri, is in honor of Manfred Reisinger who is a German naturalist and reptile breeder.[3]

Geographic range

Varanus reisingeri is found on the island of Misool in West Papua, Indonesia.[2]

Habitat

The natural habitat of V. reisingeri is forest, from sea level to an altitude of 535 m (1,755 ft).[1]

References
  1. Allison A, Shea G, Tallowin O (2016). "Varanus reisingeri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T42485766A42485769. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T42485766A42485769.en. Downloaded on 08 January 2020.
  2. Species Varanus reisingeri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Varanus reisingeri, p. 219).

Further reading
  • Eidenmüller, Bernd; Wicker, Rudolf (20015) "Eine weitere neue Waranart aus dem Varanus prasinus-Komplex von der Insel Misol, Indonesien ". Sauria 27 (1): 3–8. (Varanus reisingeri, new species). (in German, with an abstract in English).
  • Ziegler T, Schmitz A, Koch A, Böhme W (2007). "A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups". Zootaxa 1472: 1-28.


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