Species profile—Varanus doreanus (blue-tailed monitor)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Varanidae (goannas or monitors) → Varanus doreanus (blue-tailed monitor)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Varanidae (goannas or monitors)
- Scientific name
- Varanus doreanus (Meyer, 1874)
- Common name
- blue-tailed monitor
- Type reference
- Meyer, A.B. (1874). [Eine Mittheilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Meyer] über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 34996
- Synonym(s)
- Monitor doreanus
Varanus indicus
Varanus kalabeck - Alternate name(s)
- blue-tailed tree monitor
blue-tailed goanna
bluetail monitor - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=34996.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
