Is it ornate or nile? Help?

marina322 · 06-02-17, 11:10 PM

Hi everyone, so I recently received a nile monitor (I think) but the appearance is leaning more towards ornate to me. Hopefully the experts can answer and help me? He/she has a pinkish lavender tongue color. What do you think?

dave himself · 06-03-17, 12:57 AM

I'm definitely no expert

, but going on what I know about monitors, imo that's an ornate. Just because of the colour of the tongue, and the markings. But as I said my knowledge is very limited

murrindindi · 06-03-17, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by marina322

Hi everyone, so I recently received a nile monitor (I think) but the appearance is leaning more towards ornate to me. Hopefully the experts can answer and help me? He/she has a pinkish lavender tongue color. What do you think?

Hi, recent studies have shown that V. ornatus is not a valid species, merely a morph of Varanus niloticus. Your photo shows a typical V. niloticus.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...m6gi7trNOvvjCw