Hello Reaserchgate !
I'm a student in Heritage and I'm curently doing my traineeship in the science faculty of Toulouse where I inventory a lot of taxidermy.
I encounter difficulties to identify some of the animals and require your help.
Number 2 and 5 : I'm thinking about varanus dumerilii, but not quite sure.
Dimentions : number 2 is 37cm (long) / number 5 is 32cm (long)
Number 3 is 38cm (long) with the socle. Maybe an Uromastyx aegyptia ?
For number 1, I don't really know but it's 40cm long and 12 cm large.
Number 4 is 36,5cm long and 9cm large (with the socle), I don't know if it's just a lizard or a tiny monitor.
I can take more pictures of the details of course,
Thanks a lot !!
@JaePark, thank you for responding ! I indeed have a lot of fun with this inventory :)
For all specimens I proposed you to see this page: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search?search=Uromastyx&submit=Search
Number three is ok: genus Uromastyx. Is important where it is from. There are several species from Africa and Middle Oriente.
Number one are quite similar to number three: Genus Uromastix, but specie ???
Varanus dumerilii (numbers 2 and 5) are from Burma or Timor?
Number four, I think that you are OK, it is a monitor not a lizard.
Best wishes and good luck
Number two is Varanus dumerilii. as well as five. The Uromastix and others need a location of collection to determine the species and insure the genera are correct. If you have a location that would nail it down.
I am referring to the pictures in the order that I see them from top down: The 1st seems to be Varanus niloticus Linnaeus, the second is correct Varanus dumerilii, the 3rd and fourth seem a spiny-tailed lizard of Giordania like that of Uromastyx, the fifth belongs to the genus Uromastyx, the last three pictures seem to be Zootoca vivipara
Hi Manon. Nº 2 Varanus niloticus or V. dumerilli (I cannot be 100% sure from the photo) and 5 definitely V. dumerilii.
Genus Uromastix is correct but, as said above, locations are crucial for determining the species.
Please find attached a photo of myself (1st at left) about 10 years old in NE Angola with a V. niloticus recently roadkilled.
All the best and goog luck with your valuable nd fascinating work,
´JP
Thank you everybody ! Unfortunately I don't have the location for the animals, they're old and abandonned since a lot of years and nothing refers to it ! Thanks a lot anyway !
João Pedro, the photo is super cute, I love it !
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