| Mertens' water monitor | |
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| Smithsonian National Zoological Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Varanidae |
| Genus: | Varanus |
| Subgenus: | Varanus |
| Species: | V. mertensi
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| Binomial name | |
| Varanus mertensi Glauert, 1951
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Mertens' water monitor (Varanus mertensi), often misspelled Mertin's water monitor, is a species of monitor lizard. The species is endemic to northern Australia, and is a wide-ranging, actively foraging, opportunistic predator of aquatic and riparian habitats.[2] It is named after German herpetologist Robert Mertens.[3]
- ^ Shea, G.; Woinarski, J.C.Z.; Macdonald, S.M.; Cogger, H. (2018). "Varanus mertensi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T83778246A101752340. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T83778246A101752340.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Mayes, Phillip James (2006). The ecology and behaviour of Varanus mertensi (Reptilia: Varanidae) (Dissertation submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy). Perth, Western Australia: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Edith Cowan University.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Varanus mertensi, p. 176).