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REPTILE FACTS
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Description
The Emerald Tree Monitor is a small to medium sized arboreal monitor lizard. The body colour is many shades of green to turquoise, with darker bands across the body. The tail is prehensile tail to help it live in trees. It uses its long forked tongue to sense its surroundings.
Other Names
Green Tree Monitor
Size
up to 75cm
Environment
rainforest, palm forest, mangroves
Food
It is the only known monitor lizard species to be omnivorous. It feeds on berries, fruit, insects, frogs, lizards and other small animals
Breeding
lays up to 5 eggs. The young hatch after 5 - 6 months
Range
The Emerald Tree Monitor is from New Guinea, and also found on a few islands in the Torres Strait.
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Sauria) | | Family: | Varanidae | | Genus: | Varanus | | Species: | prasinus | | Common Name: | Emerald Tree Monitor |
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