Whats this?

[Fuscus]

Photographed at 1770 (south of Gladstone) near the beach. About a meter long and took one look at me and ran (I have the same effect on women). Think it is eiher a very old V.gouldii or an old V.tristis

 

[MrBredli]

My first thought was V. gouldii with not a great deal of confidence. :?

 

[Oxyuranus microlepid]

heath monitor? im probly wrong, but hey...

 

[Goannas1]

sand monitor V.gouldii

 

[rodentrancher]

???????????????Hi Mark! Nice to see you are still alive. Cheers Cheryl and Dave

 

[PimmsPythons]

just one of our sand goannas

 

[PimmsPythons]

heres one from turkey beach and one from 1770 as well.fairly dull colouring in this area normally.do get the odd bright one ever now and then.

 

[hornet]

saw heaps at facing island simon, are they sandies aswell?

 

[PimmsPythons]

yeah there everywhere.heaps of legless lizards on facing island too.always see a number of them when we go over there

 

[hornet]

didnt see any legless lizards, heaps of quail and wallabies tho

 

[Tristis]

goulds

 

[cris]

V.Panoptes i think.

 

[cris]

Slimebo i think your pic is panoptes too. To be honest i dont know what technically defines them from gouldi but they just look like V.panoptes to me.

 

[herptrader]

Looking at the tail cross section I had assumed one of the semi aquatic species.... so my first guess was a Mertens.

 

[cris]

V.panoptes are known as river goannas (as well as other names) i wouldnt say they were semi-aquatic but they can swim well and have tails exactly the same shape as seen above. Mine have on occasions ran into the water like a water dragons would and i have seen them swimming on other occasions. Perhaps semi-semi-aquatic.

 

[JasonL]

Slimebo i think your pic is panoptes too. To be honest i dont know what technically defines them from gouldi but they just look like V.panoptes to me.

panoptes have some banding though most of the cream / yellow tail tip, sandies don't.

 

[cris]

panoptes have some banding though most of the cream / yellow tail tip, sandies don't.

Thanks, they are definately panoptes IMO

 

[Kratos]

Goulds

 

[Kersten]

You're alive Fuscus!