The desert monitor (Varanus griseus) is a species of monitor lizard of the order Squamata found living throughout North Africa and Central and South Asia. The desert monitor is carnivorous, feeding on a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates.[3]
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July 1983. Desert fauna include the Russian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii) and a large lizard known as the Transcaspian or desertmonitor (Varanus griseus)...
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griseus - 2 subspecies Varanus g. caspius (eastern desertmonitor) Varanus g. koniecznyi (Thar desertmonitor) There are 71 species and 15 subspecies of Serpentes...
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that signifies valor, courage, recklessness"; the Tuareg name of the desertmonitor given by the Tuareg Berbers of Niger & Algeria), and sauros, the Greek...
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