black-spotted ridge-tailed monitor

Scientific Name
Varanus baritji
Category
Reptiles

Black-spoteed ridge-tailed monitor. Inhabits rock country, stony hills and residual rocky outliers, growing to about 60cm and is reddish-brown with scattered dark brown and black spots mixed with lighter cream coloured flecks on the torso. The tail (darker in colour than the torso) has a double row of enlarged, keeled scales (Cogger 2000:361).

It is not clear of the dialect range of various names. Bulurr is used in Kundedjnjenghmi and possibly Kunwinjku and Kundjeyhmi but the name birrem is also recorded for Kundjeyhmi. The synonyms birrem and nabadbirrem are used in Kuninjku and Kune.

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Kunwinjku term
bulurr
Kundjeyhmi term
bulurr, birrem
Kuninjku term
birrem
Kune/Mayali term
nabadbirrem, birrem
Kundedjnjenghmi term
bulurr

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