Varanus brevicauda BOULENGER, 1898

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Higher Taxa	Varanidae, Platynota, Varanoidea, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Short-tailed Pygmy Monitor G: Kurzschwanzwaran
Synonym	Varanus brevicauda BOULENGER 1898: 916 Varanus brevicauda — STORR 1980 Varanus brevicauda — COGGER 1983 Worrellisaurus brevicauda — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 22 Varanus brevicauda — COGGER 2000: 361 Varanus brevicauda — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Varanus (Odatria) brevicauda — HÖRENBERG & KOCH 2013 Varanus brevicaudus — COGGER 2014: 765 Varanus (Odatria) brevicauda — BUCKLITSCH et al. 2016: 50
Distribution	Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia) Type locality: Sherlock River, Nickol (as Nicol) Bay, W. A.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1946.8.30.46 (formerly 98.10.26.6), Sherlock River, Nicol Bay, WA, collected E. Clement. Designated by Wells & Wellington (1985).
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and “cauda, -ae” = tail. “brevicauda” (short tail) is a noun in apposition, not an adjective, hence its gender is NOT that that of the masculine genus. An adjective would require the name to be “brevicaudatus” (W. Böhme and A. Koch, pers. comm. 13 Aug 2018).
References	Akeret, Beat 2014. Geschichtliches zur Haltung von Waranen in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (6): 14-21 - get paper here Böhme,W. 2003. Checklist of the living monitor lizards of the world (family Varanidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 341: 6-43 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1898. Third report on additions to the lizard collection in the Natural History Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1898: 912-923. - get paper here Branch, W. R. 1982. Hemipeneal Morphology of Platynotan Lizards. Journal of Herpetology 16 (1): 16-38 - get paper here 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. Dittmer, D. E., Chapman, T. L. & Bidwell, J. R. 2020. In the shadow of an iconic inselberg: Uluru’s shadow influences climates and reptile assemblage structure at its base. J. Arid Environ. 181, 104179 (2020) - get paper here Doughty, Paul; Luke Kealley, Alison Fitch and Stephen C. Donnellan 2014. A new diminutive species of Varanus from the Dampier Peninsula, western Kimberley region, Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 29: 128–140 - get paper here FRÝDLOVÁ, PETRA and DANIEL FRYNTA 2010. A test of Rensch’s rule in varanid lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 293–306 - get paper here Hörenberg, Thomas & André Koch 2013. Die Zwergwarane der Untergattung Odatria Gray, 1838. Draco 13 (53): 6-19 - get paper here Maryan, B., Gaikhorst, G., & Parkhurst, B. 2024. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Zuytdorp coast and hinterland of Western Australia: Exceptional richness in a global biodiversity hotspot. Western Australian Naturalist, 33, 3 Mertens, R. 1942. Die Familie der Warane (Varanidae), 3. Teil: Taxonomie. Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., 466: 235-391 Mertens, R. 1958. Bemerkungen über die Warane Australiens. Senckenbergiana biologica 39: 229-264 Pianka, E. R. 1969. Habitat specificity, speciation, and species density in Australian desert lizards. Ecology 50 (3): 498-502 - get paper here Pianka, E. R. 1970. Notes on Varanus brevicauda. Western Australian Naturalist 11: 113-116 - get paper here Pianka, E. R. and D. R. King, eds. 2004. Varanoid Lizards of the World. Indiana University Press, 599 pp - get paper here Pianka, E.R. 2003. Australian Desert Varanids. Reptilia (GB) (30): 20-26 - get paper here Pianka, E.R. 2003. Die Warane der australischen Wüste. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (43): 29-35 - get paper here Storr G M 1980. The monitor lizards (genus Varanus Merrem, 1820) of Western Australia. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 8 (2): 237-293 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
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://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/brevicauda.html file:////Users/uetz/lab/grants/NSF reptile database/figures from Shai… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Varanidae/Varanus/brevicauda Google images

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