
The Borneo earless monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) is the semi-aquatic lizard was first recorded to be found and collected in 1891 in its native habitat in the Rejang river in Sarawak, (Malaysian Borneo) by C.A. Bampfylde.
Protected by Malaysian law and two neighboring countries Brunei and Indonesia,Borneo earless monitor had been relatively unknown to the outside world.
The zoos have produced hatchlings of a species that are rare to find even in its natural habitat in the Borneo lowlands. When private individuals finally are able to easily acquire a pair of earless monitor lizards, the quest for the “Holy Grail of Herpetology” will no longer be so appealing.
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