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Monitor Lizards
Varanidae
Varanidae is a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea. The family, a group of carnivorous and frugivorous lizards, includes the extinct Megalania (the largest known lizard), the Komodo dragon (the largest living lizard), and the crocodile monitor. Varanidae also contains the living genus Varanus and a number of extinct taxa. Their closest living relatives are the anguid and helodermatid lizards.
1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 94 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 39392.