Name - Megalania prisca

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:158426 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Megalania prisca Owen 1860

• Megalania prisca Ow.

• Megalania prisca Owen

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Recent Publications

• 4. Reptiles. 4D. Rebuilding a giant lizard: Megalania prisca.
• Megalania prisca Owen, 1959, the giant goanna.
• Possible affinities between Varanus giganteus and Megalania prisca.
• Vermiform bones and the evolution of gigantism in Megalania: How a reptilian fox became a lion.
• First record of a giant varanid (Megalania, Squamata) from the Pleistocene of Naracoorte, South Australia.

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