The Varanidae are a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea and order Anguimorpha. The family, a group of carnivorous and frugivorous lizards...

are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also...

attempted to establish the phylogenetic position of megalania within the Varanidae. An affinity with the perentie (Varanus giganteus), Australia's largest...

as the Komodo monitor, is a large reptile of the monitor lizard family Varanidae that is endemic to the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and...

It is only found on a single island of off the coast of Singapore. The Varanidae are a family of carnivorous and frugivorous monitor lizards, which contains...

length of up to 36 cm (14 in), while the largest species in the family Varanidae, Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), has a length up to 3 metres (10 ft)...

Laurenti in 1768 when he described a water monitor specimen. The family Varanidae contains nearly 80 species of monitor lizards, all of which belong to...

albigularis microstictus) is a subspecies of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The subspecies is native to Tanzania. Varanus albigularis microstictus...

monitor, is a species of large Australian monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. John Edward Gray described the species in 1838 as Hydrosaurus gouldii...

Dumeril's monitor (Varanus dumerilii) is a species of lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia. Adult Dumeril's monitors can...