Varanus salvator

Singapore conservation status. Least Concern. Conservation priority. Lowest. IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2021].

Sumber: Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

Distribution. This species has been recorded on many islands off Terengganu except Susu Dara Kecil, Seringgeh and Tokong Burung Besar islands (Grismer 2011 b; Grismer et al. 2011).

Sumber: Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea

Biology. This species is still relatively common along the eastern shore of Lac Maninjau. Specimens were often observed at dawn and sometimes just before sunset. Some of them seem to be regular at their basking site. A few adults could swim up to about 150 m from the shore. A monitor’s burrow was detected in the vertical bank of a stream, concealed in tangled vegetation. The specimen found dead was killed while it was crawling near a stream on a road crossing a piece of primary forest in hills. Monitors are still (temporarily?) common in populated areas where they sometimes forage in the garbage cans.

Sumber: Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo

Distribution on Sumatra. Provinces of Aceh, Sumatera Utara, Sumatera Barat, Riau, Jambi, Sumatera Selatan, and Lampung; also the islands of Engano, Nias, Simeulue and We (De Rooij, 1915).

Sumber: Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo