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Bengal Monitor (43815352054)🦎

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SpeciesVaranidae
Reptiles

🦎Bengal monitor

Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802)

The Bengal monitor, also called Indian monitor, is a species of monitor lizard distributed widely in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia and West Asia.

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Also called
Varanus bengalensis, Bengal Monitor Lizard, Clouded Monitor, Common Indian Monitor
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.75 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Everything we know about the Bengal monitor

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Body mass
3.75 kgrecord 18 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
11 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

Gestation
183 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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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

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

By sex

  • Female0.39 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
3.8 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 Bengal 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 bengalensis
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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In other languages
孟加拉巨蜥 (zh), Waran bengalski (pl), Varan du Bengale (fr), Бенгальский варан (ru), Varanus bengalensis (es), ตะกวด (th) … and 21 more languages
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