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This specimen was collected from the East Indies by F. Buck. 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 Matthew Colbert on 28 April 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 750 slices. Each slice is 0.201 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.201 mm and a field of reconstruction of 90 mm.

Links

Varanus salvator on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Literature

Varanus bibliography by Dr. Graham Thompson

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

Skull pitch movie	Skull roll movie
Mandible yaw movie	Mandible pitch movie	Mandible roll movie