The perentie, a large goanna, is found in the arid and semi-arid desert and spinifex country within Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.
A distribution map can be found at the related link below.
Up to a point. The perentie, or Australia's largest goanna which is endemic to the deserts, is highly adaptable and found wherever there is vegetation and a food source. It is found through most of the deserts of central Australia and Western Australia. A map of its distribution can be found at the related link.
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Yes. Of the world's 20 or so species of goanna, around 15 of them are found in Australia.
Perentie is the large goanna of central Australia, so named by the Arrernte people.
The perentie is a large, carnivorous goanna of central Australia. It is an opportunistic eater which will basically eat anything it can, including other reptiles, small mammals, birds and their eggs, and carrion (carcasses of dead animals).
A Bungarra (otherwise known as a Sand Monitor, Gould's Monitor or Racehorse Goanna) is a lizard that grows to a maximum of 140cm and 6kgs and is found in the throughout much of Australia. A Perentie is the largest monitor Native to Australia and can grow to 2.5m and over 20kgs. This has a smaller range from the northwest of Australia extending into the interior.
The aboriginal women gathered berries and native fruits, yams and smaller animals endemic to their area, such as the perentie (goanna) of central Australia.
Australia has a number of large lizards known as monitor lizards, or goannas. The largest of these is the perentie, which can be over two metres in length.
The scientific name for a perentie is Varanus giganteus.
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The perentie, a type of monitor lizard native to the arid Australian outback, lives for up to twenty years. Being both a predator and a scavenger, it has few predators of its own, but the young perentie may be preyed upon by other goannas, and by wedge-tailed eagles.
there are many reptiles found in Australia. They include lizards such as the thorny devil, goanna, perentie, blue-tongue and native geckos. there are many snakes, such as the red-bellied black snake, copperhead, eastern brown, inland taipan, coastal taipan, diamond python and gwardar. Ausalia has two species of crocodile: the saltwater crocodile (or "saltie") and the freshwater crocodile. There are also various species of turtle and tortoise.