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Indian Monitor Lizards Declining In Uttarakhand Due To The Wildlife Trading Of Genitalia As A Plant Product Hatha Jodi
Scientific India
|July-August 2018
Monitor lizards family Varanidae approx 76 species are identified and distributed throughout Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
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Monitor lizards live in a wide variety of habitats, ranging from desert areas to floodplains, scrubland to forests and survived in agricultural areas. In India, presently four species of monitor lizards are present; Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis), Desert monitor (Varanus griseus), Yellow monitor (Varanus flavescens) and Water monitor (Varanus salvator). All the four Indian monitor lizards are listed in Schedule-I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. Among them single specie i. e. Bengal monitor is reported from Uttarakhand India.
This story is from the July-August 2018 edition of Scientific India.
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