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This specimen was collected from Torit, Equatoria, Sudan by H. Hoogstraal on 10 August 1948. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin and Mr. Alan Resetar of the Field Museum. Funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life grant (EF-0334961), The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny using Genomic and Morphological Approaches, to Drs. Jacques Gauthier of Yale University, Maureen Kearney of the Field Museum, Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin, Tod Reeder of San Diego State University, Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum, Jack Sites of Brigham Young University, and John Wiens of SUNY Stonybrook.

Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

The specimen was scanned by Richard Ketcham on 15 November 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 930 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.119 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.119 mm and a field of reconstruction of 54 mm.

Literature

Varanus reference list from Eric Pianka's lab

Links

Varanus exanthematicus page by Daniel Benett

V. exanthematicus on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Varanidae page from the EMBL Reptile Database

Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the entire hyoid; of the skull with the osteoderms, scleral ossicles, hyoid and jaw removed; and of the isolated left mandible. All are 2mb or less.

Skull with hyoid yaw movie	Skull with hyoid pitch movie	Skull with hyoid roll movie
Skull pitch movie	Skull roll movie
Mandible yaw movie	Mandible pitch movie	Mandible roll movie