Yellow monitor

Yellow Monitor
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia
Family:	Varanidae
Genus:	Varanus
Species:	V. flavescens
Binomial name
Varanus flavescens (Hardwicke & Gray, 1827)

Yellow Monitor Varanus flavescens is a species of Monitor lizard. Distribution: Flood plains of the mighty Indus; rivers of Pakistan, ganges, and Brahmaputra, India (Bihar), Nepal, and Bangladesh.

External links

• EMBL reptile database

References

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• Auffenberg W. Rahman H. Iffat F. Perveen Z. 1989 A STUDY OF VARANUS-FLAVESCENS HARDWICKE AND Gray (SAURIA VARANIDAE). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86 (3): 286-307 [1990]
• Visser, G. J. 1985 Notizen zur Brutbiologie des Gelbwarans Varanus (Empagusia) flavescens (HARDWICKE & Gray 1827) im Zoo Rotterdam. Salamandra 21 (2/3): 161-168
• Whitaker, Rom 1981 Bangladesh - Monitors and turtles Hamadryad 6 (3): 7-9