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Varanus Merrem, 1820
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174115

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):
	Common Name(s):	Monitor Lizards [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2023

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles
	Order	Squamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents
	Suborder	Autarchoglossa
	Family	Varanidae – Monitors, Monitor Lizards
	Genus	Varanus Merrem, 1820 – Monitor Lizards
		Direct Children:
	Species	Varanus acanthurus Boulenger, 1885 – Ridgetail Monitor
	Species	Varanus albigularis (Daudin, 1802) – Rock Monitor, White-throated Monitor
	Species	Varanus auffenbergi Sprackland, 1999 – Peacock Monitor, Pin-spot Monitor, Auffenberg's Monitor
	Species	Varanus bangonorum Welton, Travers, Siler and Brown, 2014 – Bangon Monitor Lizard
	Species	Varanus beccarii (Doria, 1874) – Black Tree Monitor
	Species	Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802) – Bengal Monitor, Indian Monitor
	Species	Varanus bennetti Weijola, Vahtera, Koch, Schmitz and Kraus, 2020 – Bennett's Long-tailed Monitor
	Species	Varanus bitatawa Welton, Siler, Bennett, Diesmos, Duya, Dugay, Rico, Van Weerd and R. M. Brown, 2010 – Sierra Madre Forest Monitor
	Species	Varanus boehmei Jacobs, 2003
	Species	Varanus bogerti Mertens, 1950 – Bogert's Monitor
	Species	Varanus brevicauda Boulenger, 1898 – Short-tailed Pygmy Monitor
	Species	Varanus bushi Aplin, Fitch and King, 2006 – Pilbara Mulga Goanna
	Species	Varanus caerulivirens Ziegler, Böhme and Philipp, 1999 – Turquoise Monitor
	Species	Varanus caudolineatus Boulenger, 1885 – Line-tailed Pygmy Monitor
	Species	Varanus cerambonensis Philipp, Böhme and Ziegler, 1999
	Species	Varanus citrinus Pavón-Vázquez, Esquerré, Fitch, Maryan, Doughty, Donnellan & Keogh, 2022 – Gulf Ridge-tailed Monitor, Gulf Ridge-tailed Goanna
	Species	Varanus colei Böhme, Jacobs, Koppetsch and Schmitz, 2019
	Species	Varanus cumingi Martin, 1839 – Cuming's Water Monitor
	Species	Varanus dalubhasa Welton, Travers, Siler and Brown, 2014 – Enteng's Monitor Lizard
	Species	Varanus doreanus (Meyer, 1874) – Bluetail Monitor
	Species	Varanus douarrha (Lesson, 1830) – New Ireland Monitor
	Species	Varanus dumerilii (Schlegel, 1839) – Dumeril Monitor
	Species	Varanus eremius Lucas and Frost, 1895 – Rusty Desert Monitor
	Species	Varanus exanthematicus (Bosc, 1792) – Savannah Monitor
	Species	Varanus finschi Böhme, Horn and Ziegler, 1994
	Species	Varanus flavescens (Hardwicke and Gray, 1827) – Yellow Monitor, Short-toed Monitor
	Species	Varanus giganteus (Gray, 1845) – Perentie
	Species	Varanus gilleni Lucas and Frost, 1895 – Pygmy Mulga Monitor
	Species	Varanus glauerti Mertens, 1957 – Kimberley Rock Monitor
	Species	Varanus glebopalma Mitchell, 1955 – Black-palmed Rock Monitor, Long-tailed Rock Monitor
	Species	Varanus gouldii (Gray, 1838) – Sand Monitor, Gould's Goanna
	Species	Varanus griseus (Daudin, 1803) – Desert Monitor, Grey Monitor
	Species	Varanus hamersleyensis Maryan, Oliver, Fitch and O'Connell, 2014 – Southern Pilbara Rock Goanna
	Species	Varanus indicus (Daudin, 1802) – Indian Monitor Lizard, Indian Monitor, Mangrove Monitor
	Species	Varanus insulanicus Mertens, 1958 – Groote Eylandt monitor, Black-spotted Ridge-tailed Monitor, Black-spotted Spiny-tailed Monitor
	Species	Varanus jobiensis Ahl, 1932 – Peach-throated Monitor
	Species	Varanus juxtindicus Böhme, Philipp and Ziegler, 2002
	Species	Varanus keithhornei Wells and Wellington, 1985 – Nesbit River Monitor
	Species	Varanus kingorum Storr, 1980 – Pygmy Rock Monitor
	Species	Varanus komodoensis Ouwens, 1912 – Komodo Monitor, Komodo Island Monitor, Komodo Dragon
	Species	Varanus kordensis (Meyer, 1874)
	Species	Varanus lirungensis Koch, Arida, Schmitz, Böhme and Ziegler, 2009 – Talaud Mangrove Monitor
	Species	Varanus mabitang Gaulke and Curio, 2001
	Species	Varanus macraei Böhme and Jacobs, 2001 – Blue Tree Monitor
	Species	Varanus marmoratus (Wiegmann, 1834)
	Species	Varanus melinus Böhme and Ziegler, 1997 – Banggai Island Monitor, Quince Monitor
	Species	Varanus mertensi Glauert, 1951 – Mertens's Water Monitor
	Species	Varanus mitchelli Mertens, 1958 – Mitchell's Water Monitor
	Species	Varanus nebulosus (Gray, 1831) – Clouded Monitor
	Species	Varanus nesterovi Böhme, Ehrlich, Milto, Orlov and Scholz, 2015 – Nesterov's Desert Monitor
	Species	Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766) – Nile Monitor, Water Leguaan
	Species	Varanus nuchalis (Günther, 1872)
	Species	Varanus obor Weijola and Sweet, 2010
	Species	Varanus ocreatus Storr, 1980 – Storr's Monitor
	Species	Varanus olivaceus Hallowell, 1857 – Gray's Monitor Lizard, Butaan, Gray's Monitor
	Species	Varanus palawanensis Koch, Gaulke and Böhme, 2010
	Species	Varanus panoptes Storr, 1980 – Yellow-spotted Monitor
	Species	Varanus pilbarensis Storr, 1980 – Northern Pilbara Rock Monitor
	Species	Varanus prasinus (Schlegel, 1839) – Emerald Monitor
	Species	Varanus primordius Mertens, 1942 – Northern Blunt-spined Monitor
	Species	Varanus rainerguentheri Ziegler, Böhme and Schmitz, 2007
	Species	Varanus rasmusseni Koch, Gaulke and Böhme, 2010
	Species	Varanus reisingeri Eidenmüller and Wicker, 2005
	Species	Varanus rosenbergi Mertens, 1957 – Heath Monitor
	Species	Varanus rudicollis Gray, 1845 – Roughneck Monitor
	Species	Varanus salvadorii (Peters and Doria, 1878) – Crocodile Monitor
	Species	Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1768) – Common Water Monitor
	Species	Varanus samarensis Koch, Gaulke and Böhme, 2010 – Samar Water Monitor
	Species	Varanus scalaris Mertens, 1941
	Species	Varanus semiremex Peters, 1869 – Rusty Monitor
	Species	Varanus semotus Weijola, Donnellan and Lindquist, 2016 – Mussau Monitor
	Species	Varanus similis Mertens, 1958
	Species	Varanus sparnus Doughty, Kealley, Fitch and Donnellan, 2014 – Dampier Peninsula Goanna
	Species	Varanus spenceri Lucas and Frost, 1903 – Spencer's Monitor
	Species	Varanus spinulosus Mertens, 1941 – Solomon Island Spiny Monitor
	Species	Varanus storri Mertens, 1966 – Storr's Monitor
	Species	Varanus telenesetes Sprackland, 1991
	Species	Varanus timorensis (Gray, 1831) – Spotted Tree Monitor
	Species	Varanus togianus (Peters, 1872)
	Species	Varanus tristis (Schlegel, 1839) – Black-tailed Monitor, Black-headed Monitor
	Species	Varanus tsukamotoi Kishida, 1929 – Mariana Monitor, Saipan Monitor
	Species	Varanus varius (Shaw in White, 1790) – Lace Monitor
	Species	Varanus yemenensis Böhme, Joger and Schätti, 1989 – Yemen Monitor
	Species	Varanus yuwonoi Harvey and Barker, 1998
	Species	Varanus zugorum Böhme and Ziegler, 2005

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Roy W. McDiarmid
	Notes:	U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
	Reference for:	Varanus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Varanus

	Source:	Reptile Database (May 2023), website (version May-2023)
	Acquired:	2023
	Notes:	Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2023) The Reptile Database, http://www.reptile-database.org, accessed, accessed 9 May 2023
	Reference for:	Varanus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Varanus

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