Species Profile
Varanus
Monitor lizard
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Varanus inhabits forests, deserts, and wetlands.
Carnivorous and active.
Top reptilian predator.
Size & Structure
01
Large elongated body
02
Forked tongue
03
Strong limbs
04
Long muscular tail
Varanus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Highly developed brain
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (bony)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Top predator
Controls prey populations
Scavenger role
Economic Importance
Ecological importance
Research on reptile intelligence
Wildlife tourism