Lacertilia Collection (page 3)

Varanus gouldii, Goulds monitor
Plate 151 from Natural History of Victoria (1887) by Sir Frederick McCoy

Varanus eremius and Varanus gilleri
Rusty desert monitor (Varanus eremius) and pigmy mulga monitor (Varanus gilleri). Plate 8 from Report of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia (1896)

Lacerta viridis, green lizard
Plate 38 from Proc. Zoological Society London, 1884 of various views of a green lizard. Held in the Zoology Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Reptile specimens in the Darwin Centre
Various reptile specimens stored in spirit in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Pogono barbata, bearded dragon
Drawing 361 from the Watling Collection titled Native name Ngarrang by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Bird, leaves and chameleon design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. The image also appears in The Gilded Canopy

Varanus varius, lace monitor lizard
Drawing 365 from the Watling Collection by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Lizard specimen held in the Darwin Centre
Lizard specimen in a spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Iguana delicatissima, West Indian iguana
West Indian iguana in a specimen jar held at the Natural History Museum, London

Salamanders
Plate 8 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae (1622) by C. Flegel

Coracias temminckii, purple-winged roller
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Torvosaurus claw
A fossil claw once belonging to the dinosaur, Torvosaurus whose name means savage lizard. It was a carnivore which lived during the upper Jurassic period. Its fossils have been found in Colorado, USA

Chamaeleo calyptratus, veiled chameleon
A dried (stuffed) specimen of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) native to South West Arabia, in the vecinity of the Yemen and Saudi Arabia borderline

Varanus komodoensis, Komodo dragon
Specimen of a Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard in the world on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Desert lizard, Abu Dhabi
A desert lizard sitting on a bush photographed in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Bogus fossil lizard
GIWL108 (Geologisches Institut, Universit� urzburg Lugensteine number 108). This image shows a bogus fossil lizard (or salamander) eating an insect. Photographed by Paul Taylor

Cheirotherium
Arid desert of Triassic Britain with imagined reconstructions of Cheirotherium ( hand-beast ), a labyrinthodont reptile, whose prints are common in Triassic rocks but no remains have been found

Quartz box and carved lizard
An ornamental box set with different quartz stones (silicon dioxide) including a large central citrine together with a carved lizard in cat s-eye quartz

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