Goanna was queried a few years back as a word in a song and many of you will know this is a type of Lizard common in the outback.

Well, where I come from "goanna" was what you called that musical instrument, up against the wall, with the 88 keys along the front.

Monitor lizards (Varanus species) are often called goannas although there are other names around in Oz, such as Perentie, Lace Monitors etc. Such names should refer to particular, individual, species but are often casually mixed. Monitors even get to the Wallace Line as Komodo Dragons.

Cheers, Rowan