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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0d728265-3362-4418-a7bf-50c15f6d82f2

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Varanus varius
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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

Conservation status

SARare
VICVulnerable

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Online resources

Species Lists

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Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Varanus varius

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Lacerta varia White, 1790
Published in: White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, with sixty five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. Appendix London : Debrett pp. 299
Tupinambis variegatus Daudin, 1802
Published in: Daudin, F.M. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière des Reptiles Paris : Dufart Vol. 3 pp. 452 pp.
Varanus bellii Duméril & Bibron, 1836
Published in: Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1836. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles Paris : Roret Vol. 3 pp. iv 517 pp.
Varanus (Hydrosaurus) mustelinus de Borre, 1870
Published in: de Borre, A.P. 1870. Description d'une nouvelle espèce africaine du genre (Varanus). Bull. Acad. R. Sci. Belg. Ser. 2 Vol. 29 pp. 122-130
Varanus various Berney, 1936
Published in: Berney, F.L. 1936. Gould's monitor (Varanus gouldiae). Qld Naturalist Vol. 10 pp. 12-14

Common Names

Common name Source
Lace Monitor
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Lace Goanna
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
class
REPTILIA
subclass
LEPIDOSAURIA
order
SQUAMATA
suborder
LACERTILIA
family
VARANIDAE
genus
Varanus
species
Varanus varius  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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