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Argentine Black and white Tegu (Salvator merianae), Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas Thomas Fuhrmann🦎

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SpeciesTeiidae
Reptiles

🦎Argentine black and white tegu

Salvator merianae Duméril & Bibron, 1839

El lagarto overo, teju guazu, o teju argentino ​(Salvator merianae) es una especie de lagarto de la familia Teiidae. Es un reptil omnívoro y de reproducción ovípara. En general, no son considerados peligrosos, y dado su carácter sociable y su gran personalidad, han logrado llamar la atención de muchas personas y es consecuentemente buscado como mascota en algunas ocasiones.

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≈ 1/14th of your weight
Also called
Salvator merianae, Black-and-white Tegu
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.47 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Everything we know about the Argentine black and white tegu

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Body mass
4.47 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsmaximum recorded
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Diet
Omnivorous
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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
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

By sex

  • Female0.35 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
4.5 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 Argentine black and white tegu yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyTeiidae
  5. ›genusSalvator
  6. ›speciesSalvator merianae
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. superorderLepidosauria
  3. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  4. genusSalvator
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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. genusSalvator
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Salvator merianae (pt), Schwarzweißer Teju (de), Salvator merianae (fr), Salvator merianae (ru), Salvator merianae (es), Salvator merianae (nl) … and 12 more languages
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Argentine Black and white Tegu (Salvator merianae), Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas Thomas Fuhrmann043 Argentine black and white tegu in Encontro das Águas State Park Photo by Giles LaurentArgentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) male Vicente Lopez
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