Varanus bitatawa Welton, Siler, Bennett, Diesmos, Ruya, Dugay, Rico, Van Weerd & Brown 2010

Varanus bitatawa

Known distribution of Varanus bitatawa in the Philippines

Known distribution of Varanus bitatawa in the Philippines

Varanus bitatawa

Description: English: Varanus bitatawa (skull and partial specimen salvaged: KU 330636) stew being prepared at Location 2 by Agta tribesmen. Photo: RMB. Date: 7 February 2013. Source: Rafe M. Brown et. al. "The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: the herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range", ZooKeys doi:10.3897/zookeys.266.3982. Author: Rafe M. Brown, Cameron D. Siler, Carl. H Oliveros, Luke J. Welton, Ashley Rock, John Swab, Merlijn Van Weerd, Jonah van Beijnen, Edgar Jose, Dominic Rodriguez, Edmund Jose, Arvin C. Diesmos. Permission(Reusing this file): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Description: English: A large (nearly 2 m) adult male Varanus bitatawa in life. Photo: RMB. Date: 7 February 2013, 23:25:54. Source: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A (2013). "The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: The herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range". ZooKeys 266: 1. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.266.3982. Author: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A.

Description: English: Varanus bitatawa (skull and partial specimen salvaged: KU 330636) stew being prepared by Agta tribesmen. Photo: RMB. Date: 7 February 2013, 22:18:15. Source: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A (2013). "The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: The herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range". ZooKeys 266: 1. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.266.3982. Author: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A.

Description: English: Pictured in Pampanga. Date: 30 April 2013, 18:49:23. Source: Own work. Author: Pgilx.

Description: English: One of the first photographs in life of the newly discovered (Welton et al. 2010) Varanus bitatawa (KU 322188) from Barangay Dibuluan, San Mariano. Photo: ACD. Date: 7 February 2013, 23:25:46. Source: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A (2013). "The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: The herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range". ZooKeys 266: 1. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.266.3982. Author: Brown R, Siler C, Oliveros C, Welton L, Rock A, Swab J, Van Weerd M, van Beijnen J, Rodriguez D, Jose E, Diesmos A.

Description: English: A large (nearly 2 m) adult male Varanus bitatawa in life, near Location 2. Photo: RMB. Date: 7 February 2013. Source: Rafe M. Brown et. al. "The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: the herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range" , ZooKeys doi:10.3897/zookeys.266.3982. Author: Rafe M. Brown, Cameron D. Siler, Carl. H Oliveros, Luke J. Welton, Ashley Rock, John Swab, Merlijn Van Weerd, Jonah van Beijnen, Edgar Jose, Dominic Rodriguez, Edmund Jose, Arvin C. Diesmos. Permission(Reusing this file): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.