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Varanus nebulosus
| Description | The clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus) is a species of monitor lizard, native to Burma, Thailand and Indochina to West Malaysia, Singapore, Java, and Sumatra. They are excellent tree climbers. It belongs to the subgenus Empagusia along with the Bengal monitor, the Dumeril's monitor and other monitor lizards. It had previously been listed as a subspecies of Varanus bengalensis by some herpetologists. It is a diurnal monitor. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanus_nebulosus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Varanus nebulosus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Varanus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Varanus nebulosus (Gray, 1831) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Clouded Monitor, Nebelwaran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanus_nebulosus |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Varanus nebulosus Koch Et Al., 2013 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Varanus nebulosus |
| Monitor nebulosus Gray, 1831 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Monitor nebulosus |
| Varanus vietnamensis Yang & Liu, 1994 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Varanus vietnamensis |
| Varanus bengalensis nebulosus Mertens, 1942 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Varanus bengalensis nebulosus |
| Varanus bengalensis vietnamensis De Lisle, 1996 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Varanidae : Varanus : Varanus bengalensis vietnamensis |
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