salvator

[jason h]

for anyone interested this months REPTILES mag has an excellant artical on water monitors,great pics but geared more to baby ones as far as info goes,but good coverage none the less.

[B-Rep]

I read that the other day, and I will agree. It is definetly a good article to show you how to raise a water.

[chuck911jeep]

Did somebody saw, it seem they put a niloticus pic in a salvator article??

[B-Rep]

I haven't seen any pictures in the article, but young Niloticus and Salvators are often confused. But I guess ya never know...

[mbayless]

Yes niloticus and salvator do get mixed up! Ask Carolus Linne. In 1766 he confused life-size pictures illustrated by Albertus Seba in seventeenth century, and named them "Lacera nilotica" - whereas one of them was a "Stellio salvator", soon to be described by Laurenti in 1768 as future Walter Monitor. A common mistake, and even the 'experts' got/get it wrong; what is a shame, is a reptile oriented magazine should know its stuff when it comes to identification - its their business right?? They do not get all their photos from the authors of said articles, I know, and consequently make mistakes - a human condition not yet perfected....

cheers,
markb

[Mr.Lizard]

Yep,that was definitely a nile in the one picture.
I do enjoy that magazine,but it's not the first time I've seen a misidentification though.
One issue showed an enclosure full of little brown lizards
(dwarf tegus?)identified as savanna monitors.
They definitely weren't savannas.