Clouded monitor

Clouded monitor

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia
Family:	Varanidae
Genus:	Varanus
Subgenus:	Empagusia
Species:	V. nebulosus
Binomial name
*Varanus nebulosus* (Gray, 1931) ^[1]
Synonyms
Varanus bengalensis nebulosus

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.^[2] It had previously been listed as a subspecies of Varanus bengalensis by some herpetologists.^[3] It is a diurnal monitor.^[4]

Description

Clouded monitors can, on occasion, grow up to 1.5 metres long.^[5]

↑ 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

Extant species

Helodermatidae	Beaded lizard Gila monster

Lanthanotus	Earless monitor lizard

Varanus	Argus monitor Asian water monitor Black tree monitor Black-headed monitor Bengal monitor Black-spotted ridge-tailed monitor Crocodile monitor Desert monitor Dumeril's monitor Emerald tree monitor Gray's monitor Kalabeck's monitor Kimberley rock monitor Komodo dragon Lace monitor Mangrove monitor Mertens' water monitor Mitchell's water monitor Nile monitor Peacock monitor Peach-throated monitor Perentie Rock monitor Pilbara monitor Rennell Island monitor Rosenberg's monitor Roughneck monitor lizard Short-tailed monitor Spiny-tailed monitor Timor tree monitor Turquoise monitor Sand goanna Savannah monitor Yellow monitor

Related categories	Monitor lizards Cretaceous lizards Helodermatidae Mosasaurs

†Aigialosauridae	Aigialosaurus Carsosaurus Judeasaurus Kaganaias

†Dolichosauridae	Adriosaurus Dolichosaurus Acteosaurus

Helodermatidae	Estesia

†Mosasauridae	Halisaurinae Mosasaurinae Plioplatecarpinae Tylosaurinae

†Necrosauridae	Necrosaurus

Varanidae	Aiolosaurus Cherminotus Megalania Ovoo Saniwa Saniwides Varanus amnhophilis

Others	Telmasaurus Palaeosaniwa

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