Clouded monitor
| Clouded monitor | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Anguimorpha |
| Family: | Varanidae |
| Genus: | Varanus |
| Subgenus: | Empagusia |
| Species: | V. nebulosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Varanus nebulosus | |
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The clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus) is a species of monitor lizard, native to Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, Vietnam, to West Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Java. They are excellent tree climbers. It belongs to the subgenus Empagusia along with the Bengal monitor, the Dumeril's monitor and other monitor lizards.[3] It had previously been listed as a subspecies of Bengal monitor by some herpetologists.[4] It is a diurnal monitor.[5]
Description
[edit]Clouded monitors can on occasion grow up to 1.5 metres long.[6]
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Juvenile
Adult
References
[edit]- ↑ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ GBIF.org
- ↑ Kingsnake.com
- ↑ Varanus bengalensis Varanus.nl.
- ↑ Traeholt, C. (April 1997). Effect of masking the parietal eye on the diurnal activity and body temperature of two sympatric species of monitor lizards, Varanus s. salvator and Varanus b. nebulosus Journal of Comparative Physiology B 167(3):177-184.
- ↑ Lizards of Southeast Asia : Clouded Monitor - Varanus nebulosus
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Fauna listed on CITES Appendix I
- Varanus
- Reptiles of Southeast Asia
- Reptiles of Myanmar
- Reptiles of Cambodia
- Lizards of India
- Lizards of Indonesia
- Reptiles of the Malay Peninsula
- Lizards of Thailand
- Lizards of Vietnam
- Reptiles described in 1831
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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