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Varanus Yuwonoi
The Yuwono monitor or tricolor monitor (''Varanus yuwonoi''), also commonly known as the black-backed mangrove monitor or the black-backed monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the blue-tailed monitor species complex. (''Varanus yuwonoi'', new species). The tricolor monitor is endemic to the island of Halmahera, in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Etymology The specific epithet, ''yuwonoi'', is in honour of Indonesian herpetologist Frank Bambang Yuwono Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curr ... (born 1958). Taxonomy The tricolor monitor is a member of the blue-tailed monitor (''Varanus doreanus)'' species complex along with the blue-tailed monitor, Finsch's monitor, and the Mussau Island blue-tailed monitor. Description The fully mature size of tricolor monitors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brown Harvey
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Frank Bambang Yuwono
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Endemic Fauna Of Indonesia
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reptiles Of Indonesia
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians (tuatara). As of March 2022, the Reptile Database includes about 11,700 species. In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are considered a separate class to reptiles. However, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other living reptiles, and so modern cladistic classification systems include birds within Reptilia, redefining the term as a clade. Other cladistic definitions abandon the term reptile altogether in favor of the clade Sauropsida, which refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals. The study of the traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megapode
The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means "large foot" and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all but the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are brown or black in color. Megapodes are superprecocial, hatching from their eggs in the most mature condition of any bird. They hatch with open eyes, bodily coordination and strength, full wing feathers, and downy body feathers, and are able to run, pursue prey, and in some species, fly on the same day they hatch. Description Megapodes are medium-sized to large terrestrial birds with large legs and feet with sharp claws. The largest members of the clade are the species of '' Alectura'' and ''Talegalla''. The smallest are the Micronesian scrubfowl (''Megapodius laperouse'') and the Moluccan scrubfowl (''Eulipoa wallac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varanus Zugorum
''Varanus zugorum'', also known commonly as the silver monitor or Zugs' monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to the island of Halmahera in the Moluccas, in Indonesia. Etymology The specific name, ''zugorum'' (genitive, plural), is in honor of American herpetologist George R. Zug and his wife Patricia. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Varanus zugorum'', p. 294). Geographic range ''V. zugorum'' is only known with certainty from its type locality in the vicinity of Jailolo. Reasonably reliable local eyewitness accounts exist from Akesahu (lower western side of Kao Bay) and Labi Labi (northeast Halmahera). Taxonomy Zugs' monitor was described from a juvenile museum specimen originally labeled as ''Varanus indicus''. At least one or two specimens resembling the type specimen and generally agreed to represent this speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varanus Rainerguentheri
''Varanus rainerguentheri'', commonly known as Rainer Günther's monitor, is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Varanidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to the Moluccas. Taxonomy ''Varanus rainerguentheri'' is a member of the "mangrove monitor species-complex". ''V. rainerguentheri'' was described in 2007 from specimens originally designated as ''Varanus indicus'' from the island of Halmahera in the northern Moluccas, Indonesia. It was distinguished based on differences in pattern and well as molecular studies. Etymology The Specific name (zoology), specific name, ''rainerguentheri'', is in honor of Germans, German Herpetology, herpetologist :fr:Rainer Günther, Rainer Günther.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Varanus rainerguentheri'', p. 111). Description Average adult total length (including tail) of ''V. rainerguentheri'' is up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turquoise Monitor
The turquoise monitor (''Varanus caerulivirens'') is a species of monitor lizards found in Indonesia. Specifically, it is found on Halmahera Island and in the Maluku Islands. Description The main coloration of the turquoise monitor is black-brown and greyish-brown with some turquoise pattern. The underside coloration is light yellowish to turquoise with a blackish pattern. The throat and lower part of the neck of this monitor lizard is mostly yellowish. ''Varanus caerulivirens'' can grow up to about 110 cm in total length. The diet of ''Varanus caerulivirens'' mainly consists of crustaceans, scorpions, grasshoppers and frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...s. References Varanidae.org Further reading * Ast, Jennifer C. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA Evidence and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mussau Island Blue-tailed Monitor
The Mussau Island blue-tailed monitor or Mussau monitor (''Varanus semotus'') is a species of monitor lizard endemic to Mussau Island in Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the ''Varanus doreanus'' species complex. Taxonomy The specific name ''semotus'' is Latin for "distant" or "remote", in reference to this species being isolated from its closest relatives by several hundred kilometres as it only occurs on Mussau Island. It is a member of the ''V. doreanus'' species complex (''V. doreanus, V. finschi, V. semotus, V. yuwonoi''). Distribution It is endemic to the island of Mussau in Papua New Guinea. Although once likely common throughout Mussau, it is now restricted to a small coastal area of the island due to logging. It is however still common in its current range, where it can be found on palm trees, shrubs, and other dry coastal vegetation. There are unconfirmed reports of this species also occurring on Emirau Island Emirau Island, also called Emira, is an island in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finsch's Monitor
Finsch's monitor (''Varanus finschi'') is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is found in New Guinea and Australia. Etymology The specific name, ''finschi'', is in honor of German naturalist Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917). Geographic range Finsch's monitor was only known from Blanche Bay, Ralum, and Massawa in New Britain. Further research on the available museum specimens enlarged the range of the species, which currently includes the Bismarck Archipelago (New Ireland), New Guinea and Queensland, Australia. The specimen from Queensland lacks any fixed data on its locality, so the exact distribution of Finsch's monitor in Northern Australia remains unknown. Pet trade Reports of this species, ''V. finschi'', imported for the pet trade from the Kei Islands are erroneous and refer to similar though distinct animals that have yet to be formally described. Habitat ''Varanus finschi'' is found in several habitats: mangrove forest, inland fores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specific Name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen). The first part of the name of a species is the name of the genus or the generic name. The rules and regulations governing the giving of a new species name are explained in the article species description. For example, the scientific name for humans is ''Homo sapiens'', which is the species name, consisting of two names: ''Homo'' is the " generic name" (the name of the genus) and ''sapiens'' is the "specific name". Historically, ''specific name'' referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names. Carl Linnaeus, who formalized binomial nomenclature, made explicit distinctions between specific, generic, and trivial names. The generic name was that of the genus, the first in the binomial, the trivial name was the second name in the binomial, and the specific the proper term for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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