JoJo22

Lizard ID

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Seen at TerraZoo Rheinberg. Two unsigned species I weren't familiar with. No 1: Thought it was a red tegu at first, but after checking some pictures, I'm not sure.
Unless it's covered in red mud, it looks like an odd breed of Argentine black-and-white tegu, Salvator merianae, perhaps hybridized with the red tegu, Salvator rufescens.
 
That's not mud, that old wounds, looks like burns- note how the red areas aren't normally scaled. Perhaps from an improperly fitted heat lamp, that's really gotta hurt.

But yes, the lizard is S.merinae. Poor fellow.
 
@Swampy Thanks both of you. TerraZoo also works as a reptile rescue center, so I suppose they took him in fairly recently from somewhere, which would explain the wounds and why it wasn't yet signed.
 

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NIKON CORPORATION COOLPIX P950
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ƒ/4
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18.7 mm
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1/100 second(s)
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100
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