Mitchell’s Water Monitor

Order Squamata; Suborder Lacertilia; Family Varanidae; Scientific name: Varanus mitchelli; Common name: Mitchell’s Water Monitor; Alternative common name: Mitchell’s Goanna – swallowing a water dragon- 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 extreme north-western Queensland.