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Lanthonotus borneensis Steindachner—the Borneo earless monitor lizard (which forms, with two American lizards, the family Helodermatidae) is known from less than ten specimens, all from Sarawak (three in Kuching, one in Singapore, the rest in American and British museums), none of which has been collected in recent times or with satisfactory field data. Thus, although the importance of this reptile's purely taxonomie characters in lizard-snake evolution has been examined in detail1, no supporting information on behaviour has been available.
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HARRISSON, T., HAILE, N. A Rare Earless Monitor Lizard from Borneo. Nature 190, 1213 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901213a0
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