Varanus indicus

Mangrove monitor

DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia – Maluku islands (Seram, Buru, Ambon, Saparua, Haruku and Banda islands) (see Weijola & Kraus 2023)

RED LIST STATUS: Least Concern (LC) in 2017

CITES: Appendix II

NATIONAL PROTECTION:

Indonesia. – Nationally protected according to the Regulation of the Minister of Environment & Forestry of the Republic Indonesia, http://ksdae.menlhk.go.id/assets/news/peraturan/P.20_Jenis_TSL_.pdf

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REFERENCES:

Valter Weijola & Fred Kraus (2023) Two new species of monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanus) endemic to the Louisiade and Tanimbar Archipelagos with a key to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus, Journal of Natural History, 57:13-16, 947-975, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2218574