Varanus bogerti MERTENS, 1950

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Higher Taxa	Varanidae, Platynota, Varanoidea, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Bogert's Monitor G: Bogerts Waran
Synonym	Varanus prasinus bogerti MERTENS 1950: 3 Varanus bogerti — SPRACKLAND 1991: 571 Varanus bogerti — DE LISLE 1996: 120 Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) bogerti — ZIEGLER et al. 2007 Varanus (Euprepiosaurus) bogerti — KOCH et al. 2013 Varanus (Hapturosaurus) bogerti — BUCKLITSCH et al. 2016: 50
Distribution	d'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Archipelagos, Papua New Guinea Type locality: Ferghusson (Moratai) Island, D'Entrecasteaux archipelago.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMNH 41639
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: A Varanus of the prasinus group, nearest the typical subspecies, but distinct in having rugose head scales, nuchal scales that are tuberculated, and a higher number (44-48 instead of 32-42) of occipital scales over the back of the head from rictus to rictus. The color is black as in V. p. beccarii, but from which it may be distinguished not only by the above-mentioned characters, but also by the posterior position of the nostril, the higher number of scales around the body (95-99 instead of 81-86), and the higher number of transverse series of ventral scales (87-90 instead of 70-79). (Mertens 1950)
Comment
Etymology	Named after Charles Mitchill Bogert (1908-1992), former curator of the Department of Herpetology of the American Museum of Natural History. See biographical sketches in Gans 1993 and Myers & Zweifel 1993.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Eidenmüller, Bernd and Hans-Dieter Philippen 2008. Varanoid lizards. Terralog 6, 148 pp. [review in Draco 53: 78] 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 Lisle, H.F. de 1996. Natural History of Monitor Lizards. Krieger, Malabar (Florida) Mertens, R. 1950. Notes on some Indo-Australian monitors (Sauria, Varanidae). American Museum Novitates 1456: 1-7 - get paper here Myers, C.W. & R.G. Zweifel 1993. Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Charles Mitchill Bogert, 1908-1992 Herpetologica 49 (1): 133-146. - 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 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://monitor-lizards.net/species/index.html http://66.114.152.132/curator/WebOfLife/Kingdom/P_Chordata/ClassReptilia/O… Google images

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