Sand Goanna
S12 Female, Sunning cold am
Sand Goanna
S15, Walking Past our Carport, Rotated
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| Sand Goanna S12 Female, Sunning cold am | | Sand Goanna S15, Walking Past our Carport, Rotated | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Reptiles (Reptilia) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Scaled Reptiles (Squamata) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Goanna (Varanidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Sand Goanna (Varanus gouldii)| This Photo: | 🔍S12 Female, Sunning cold am🔎 | Thank you Ralph Foster, Max Tibby, Ernst Weiher & Richard D Reams for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We were able to measure S18 as we photographed along a fence, and photographed a rule along the fence and were able to deduce it was ~290mm SVL; ~700mm tip to tail. This is normal adult size. More colourful when younger, turning more grey as they age. Sometimes when walking around Ellura we'll hear a thumping near by, turn and see the back of one lifting dust as it disappears - no chance of a photograph Recently (Summer 2020/21) we have had a "resident" around the campsite. It's young, ~400mm long (SVL-not including the tail), and seems quite placid. Happy to sit there (but forever watching) as we move about; got some close up shots. She's labelled S7. We saw a pair mating, 9th Nov 2021 (S8 & S9); S9 had the tip of his tail missing and an injured eye. S18 is shedding it's skin.
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