- Lanthanotidae by WordNet
nounStout-bodied lizards.synonyms: family Lanthanotidae
- monitor lizard by Alondra Black
... The perenty (V. Giganteus), of Australia, grows to 8 ft (2.4 m). The so-called earless monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis), a rare lizard of Borneo and the only species of the family Lanthanotidae, grows to 16 in. (40 cm) long.
- Lanthanotus Borneensis by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... only species of the family Lanthanotidae. The body, which measures up to 40 cm long, is covered with small scales and with several longitudinal rows of larger conical scales. The tongue is drawn into a special sheath, as a snake’s tongue is. This form of tongue apparatus and certain structural features of the skull suggest that Lanthanotus borneensis. Was possibly ...