Mertens’ Water Monitor

Order Squamata; Suborder Lacertilia; Family Varanidae; Scientific name: Varanus mertensi; Common name: Mertens’Water Monitor; Alternative common name:Mertens’Goanna – Distribution in Australia: along watercourses, lagoons and in swamps of northern Australia from Kimberley in Western Australia through northern third of the Northern Territory to north-eastern Queensland.