Leguaan Or Iguana Stock Photo

The Nile monitor Varanus niloticus is a large member of the monitor family Varanidae found throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa and along the Nile. The population of West Africa forests and savannahs is sometimes recognized as a separate species, the West African Nile monitor V. stellatus.[1] Other common names include the African small-grain lizard,[2] water leguaan[3] or river leguaan leguan, leguaan, and likkewaan mean monitor lizard in South African English