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Fuscus

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Photographed at 1770 (south of Gladstone) near the beach. About a meter long and took one look at me and ran (I have the same effect on women). Think it is eiher a very old V.gouldii or an old V.tristis
 
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My first thought was V. gouldii with not a great deal of confidence. :?
 
heres one from turkey beach and one from 1770 as well.fairly dull colouring in this area normally.do get the odd bright one ever now and then.
 
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saw heaps at facing island simon, are they sandies aswell?
 
yeah there everywhere.heaps of legless lizards on facing island too.always see a number of them when we go over there
 
didnt see any legless lizards, heaps of quail and wallabies tho
 
Slimebo i think your pic is panoptes too. To be honest i dont know what technically defines them from gouldi but they just look like V.panoptes to me.
 
Looking at the tail cross section I had assumed one of the semi aquatic species.... so my first guess was a Mertens.
 
V.panoptes are known as river goannas (as well as other names) i wouldnt say they were semi-aquatic but they can swim well and have tails exactly the same shape as seen above. Mine have on occasions ran into the water like a water dragons would and i have seen them swimming on other occasions. Perhaps semi-semi-aquatic.
 
Slimebo i think your pic is panoptes too. To be honest i dont know what technically defines them from gouldi but they just look like V.panoptes to me.

panoptes have some banding though most of the cream / yellow tail tip, sandies don't.
 
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