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Remarkable Rocks in Flinders Chase NP on Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia.
Photograph by Alan Wolf. Some rights reserved.
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HEATH MONITOR FACTS
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Description
The Heath Monitor is similar to the Lace Monitor but usually darker with less distinct pattern and usually has plain dark tail tip (as opposed to banded like Lace Monitor). Young ones have orange and grey pattern on head and body.
Other Names
Rosenberg's Goanna
Size
up 150cm including tail
Environment
woodlands, heathlands, scrublands and farmlands, where there is sandy soil
Food
insects, spiders, frogs, small reptiles, small birds and small mammals. They dig burrows in the sand and find much of their food underground.
Breeding
lays up to 12 eggs, usually in termite mound
Range
southern coastal areas of Western Australia and South Australia up to the border to Victoria. Also found around Sydney area
Classification
| Class: | Reptilia | | Order: | Squamata (Sauria) | | Family: | Varanidae | | Genus: | Varanus | | Species: | rosenbergi | | Common Name: | Heath Monitor |
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