Varanus nebulosus (Clouded Monitor)
The common name of this Monitor Lizard in English is commonly called Clouded Monitor, Southeast Asian monitor and Thai name called ตะกวดลายเมฆ (Dta-guuad Laai Mek), ตะกวด (Ta-guuad), แลน (Lan), กวดพร้าว (Guuad Praow).
ตะกวดลายเมฆ : Varanus nebulosus (Gray, 1831)
Varanus nebulosus is a species of the Monitor Lizard Genus (Varanus) within the Monitor Lizard Family (Varanidae), Superfamily Platynota, in the Lizard and Snake Order (Squamata), in the Reptile Class (Reptilia), in the Chordate Phylum (Chordata) in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia).
Published in Gray, J. E. A synopsis of the species of Class Reptilia. In: Griffith, E & E. Pidgeon: The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier with additional descriptions of all the species hither named, and of many before noticed [Vol. 9]. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London: 481 + 110 pp. [1830]. (1831).
Geographic Range
Distribution in S Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, S Vietnam, Singapore, Malayan peninsula (incl. Pulau Tioman) and Java, Indonesia (Java, Riau Archipelago: Pulau Kundur, Pulau Combol)
Synonym
- Monitor nebulosus John Edward Gray (1831)
- Varanus nebulosus André Marie Constant Duméril & Gabriel Bibron (1836)
- Varanus nebulosus George Albert Boulenger (1885)
- Varanus nebulosus Nelly de Rooij (1915)
- Varanus bengalensis nebulosus Robert Mertens (1942)
- Varanus nebulosus John Roscoe Hendrickson (1966)
- Varanus bengalensis nebulosus Alice Georgie Cruickshank Grandison (1972)
- Varanus vietnamensis Yang & Liu (1994)
- Varanus bengalensis vietnamensis H.F. De Lisle (1996)
- Varanus bengalensis nebulosus Ulrich Manthey & Wolfgang Grossmann (1997)
- Varanus nebulosus Hien et al. (2001)
- Varanus nebulosus Larry Lee Grismer et al. (2002)
- Varanus bengalensis nebulosus Olivier S.G. Pauwels et al. (2003)
- Varanus (Empagusia) nebulosus André Koch et al. (2013)