4 Heath or Rosenberg's Monitor at Mount Ainslie
Identification history
| Varanus rosenbergi | 4 Dec 2023 | wombey | ||
| Varanus rosenbergi | 4 Dec 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Varanus rosenbergi | 4 Dec 2023 | HarrietteWilson |
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4 comments
DonFletcher
wrote:
4 Dec 2023
@HarrietWilson, Many thanks for posting this. The view of his face in your main photo is just enough to identify this goanna in future. They have unique left faces and right faces, so we can use that to help estimate population size.
abread111
wrote:
1 Feb 2026
@HarrietteWilson @DonFletcher Don now knows which goanna this is ... because he has been able to compare it with good photos of the other few goannas on Mt Ainslie/Majura - there are only 7 of them
DonFletcher
wrote:
Yesterday
Thats right @abread111 and @HarrietteWilson. This is the individual I tentatively identified years ago as 'RobinLarge' and several other interim names including 'Harriet Wilsons Goanna', 'Peter Laings Goanna', and others.
DonFletcher
wrote:
Yesterday
There is still one unidentified individual which looks like RobynSmall but may be a new individual if we are lucky - i.e. there may be eight.
Location information
- Maps Mount Ainslie
- Places Majura, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- HarrietteWilson Recorded by
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Collections
HarrietteWilson Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Varanus rosenbergi Monitors & Geckos Reptiles and Frogs
Additional information
- Breeding behaviour
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Varanus rosenbergi Scientific name
- Heath or Rosenberg's Monitor Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1432.1m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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