Hydrosaurus

There are large reptiles of conservation significance: the sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus amboinensis), saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), and reticulated python (Python reticulatus).

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

What they saw slowly traversing the branch above them was one of those huge lizards of the genus _Hydrosaurus_, of which there are several species in Indian climes -- like the _iguanas_ of America -- harmless creatures, despite their horrid appearance, and often furnishing to the hunter or forester a meal of chops and steaks both tender and delicious.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

The Kabara-goya Lizard (_Hydrosaurus salvator_) 273

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

Hydrosaurus varius, Gray Annals of Natural History 1 394.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

Hydrosaurus gouldii, Gray Annals of Natural History 1 394.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

Among the barbarous nostrums of the uneducated natives both Singhalese and Tamil, is the tongue of the iguana, which they regard as a specific for consumption, if plucked from the living animal and swallowed whole.] [Footnote 2: Hydrosaurus salvator, _Wagler_.] [Footnote 3: In the _Mahawanso_ the hero, Tisso, is said to have been

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836