ABSTRACT

An adult female, wild-caught yellow-spotted monitor, Varanus panoptes panoptes, was presented to the Australian Wildlife Health Center after failing to lay eggs following capture. Pre-ovulatory follicular stasis was diagnosed based on radiology and exploratory celiotomy and the condition was resolved following surgical excision of the diseased ovaries. This is the first reported case of pre-ovulatory follicular stasis in this species of monitor.