Varanus keithhornei WELLS & WELLINGTON, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Varanidae, Platynota, Varanoidea, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Nesbit River Monitor
Synonym	Varanus prasinus BLEEKER 1856: 278 (part.) Varanus prasinus prasinus CZECHURA 1980 (part.) Odatria keithhornei WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 21 Varanus teriae SPRACKLAND 1991: 570 (fide ZIEGLER & BÖHME 1997) Varanus teriae — DE LISLE 1996: 139 Varanus keithhornei — COGGER 2000: 744 Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) keithhornei — ZIEGLER et al. 2007 Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) keithhornei — KOCH et al. 2013 Varanus (Hapturosaurus) keithhornei — BUCKLITSCH et al. 2016: 50
Distribution	Australia (Queensland, Cape York Peninsula) Type locality: Buthen Buthen, Nesbit River, Cape York Peninsula
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J31566 (keithhorni) Holotype: QM J31566 [teriae]
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Comment
Etymology	Named for Mr Keith Horne, herpetologist of Sydney, New South Wales.
References	Anonymous 2001. Opinion 1970 - Odatria keithhornei WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 (Reptilia, Sauria): specific name placed on Official List. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 58 (1): 74 - get paper here Bleeker, P. 1856. Reis Minahassa 1: 278 Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Czechura, G. V. 1980. The emerald monitor Varanus prasinus (Schlegel): an addition to the Australian mainland herpetofauna. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 103-109 - get paper here Darko, Y.A.; Voss, O. & Uetz, P. 2022. A dictionary of abbreviations used in reptile descriptions. Zootaxa 5219 (5): 421–432 - get paper here Eidenmüller, B. 2007. Kleinwarane im Terrarium. Reptilia (Münster) 12 (63): 16-23 - get paper here Eidenmüller, B. 2007. Small monitors in the terrarium. Reptilia (GB) (50): 12-19 - get paper here Eidenmüller, B. & Wicker, R. 2005. Eine weitere neue Waranart aus dem Varanus prasinus-Komplex von der Insel Misol, Indonesien. Sauria 27 (1): 3-8 - get paper here Koch A, Ziegler T, Böhme W, Arida E, Auliya M. 2013. Pressing Problems: Distribution, Threats, and Conservation Status of the Monitor Lizards (Varanidae: Varanus spp.) of Southeast Asia and the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Herp. Cons. Biol. 8 (Monograph 3): 1 − 62. - get paper here Koch, Andre; Ernst, Nicole; Eidenmuller, Bernd; Kraus, Fred 2014. New data on the rare Varanus bogerti Mertens, 1950 and V. telenesetes Sprackland, 1991 (Squamata: Varanidae), two endemic monitor lizard taxa from island groups off southeastern New Guinea. The Herpetological Journal 24 (2): 111-122 - get paper here KOCH, ANDRÉ & BERND EIDENMÜLLER 2019. Is the New Guinea Emerald Tree Monitor Lizard (Varanus prasinus) Native to Mainland Australia? Biawak 13 (1): 32–42 Lisle, H.F. de 1996. Natural History of Monitor Lizards. Krieger, Malabar (Florida) Pianka, E. R. and D. R. King, eds. 2004. Varanoid Lizards of the World. Indiana University Press, 599 pp - get paper here Pianka, Eric R. 2012. Can humans share spaceship earth? Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 6 (1): 1-24 - get paper here Sprackland, R. G. 1991. Taxonomic review of the Varanus prasinus group with descriptions of two new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30 (3): 561-576. - get paper here Wells, R. W. and Wellington, C. R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series (1): 1-61 [sometimes cited as 1983] - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp. Ziegler, T. & W. BÖHME 1998. Comments on the proposed conservation of the specific name Varanus teriae SPRACKLAND, 1991 (Reptilia, Squamata) (Case 3043; see BZN 54: 100-103, 250-251; 55: 37-39). Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 55 (2): 111-113. - get paper here Ziegler, T., Schmitz, A., Koch, A. & W. Böhme 2007. A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups. Zootaxa 1472: 1-28 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/varanidae.pdf http://monitor-lizards.net/species/index.html http://www.curator.org/WebOfLife/Kingdom/P_Chordata/ClassReptilia/O… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Varanidae/Varanus/keithhornei Google images

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