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SpeciesVaranidae
Reptiles

🦎Lace monitor

Varanus varius (Shaw, 1790)

The lace monitor, also known as the tree goanna, is a member of the monitor lizard family native to eastern Australia. A large lizard, it can reach 2 metres (6.6 ft) in total length and 14 kilograms (31 lb) in weight. The lace monitor is considered to be a least-concern species according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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Varanus varius
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.3 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Lace monitor

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
4.3 kgrecord 11 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsrecord 22 years · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Carnivorous
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
ACT
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.77 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.47 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
4.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Lace monitor yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyVaranidae
  5. ›genusVaranus
  6. ›speciesVaranus varius
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. superfamilyVaranoidea
  3. familyVaranidae
  4. genusVaranus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderAnguimorpha
  12. superfamilyVaranoidea
  13. familyVaranidae
  14. genusVaranus
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Varanus varius (pt), Waran kolorowy (pl), Varanus varius (fr), пёстрый варан (ru), Varanus varius (es), tarka varánusz (hu) … and 15 more languages
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