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Spiny-tailed monitor
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<p>The spiny-tailed monitor (<i>Varanus acanthurus</i>), also known as the Australian spiny-tailed monitor, the ridge-tailed monitor the Ackie dwarf monitor, and <a href="/facts/Colloquialism/HvEweYjS">colloquially</a> simply ackie monitor, is an <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australian</a> species of <a href="/facts/Lizard/VPCpCwjT">lizard</a> belonging to the <a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> of <a href="/facts/Monitor_lizard/QThU3SvH">monitor lizards</a> (<i>Varanus</i>). </p>