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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere
- Author(s):
- Fitzinger, Leopold Joseph Franz Johann
- Publisher:
- Vienna: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1867
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
The white-throated monitor (Varanus albigularis) is a lizard in the family Varanidae. It is native to southern Africa and can grow to reach a length of 6.6 ft (2 m).
The caption reads in the original German: Der capische Warn Veran (Polydacdalus capensis).
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, Africa, color, lizard, reference book, reptile, Varanidae
