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Clouded monitor


Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix I (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Varanidae
Genus:	Varanus
Subgenus:	Empagusia
Species:	V. nebulosus
Binomial name
*Varanus nebulosus* (JE Gray, 1831)
Synonyms
Varanus bengalensis nebulosus

The clouded monitor (Varanus nebulosus) is a species of monitor lizard, native to Myanmar, Thailand and Indochina to West Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra, and Vietnam. 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 Bengal monitor by some herpetologists. It is a diurnal monitor.

Juvenile

Adult

Description

Clouded monitors can on occasion grow up to 1.5 metres long.

In Singapore

References

"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

Varanoidea

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata

Extant species

Helodermatidae	Chiapan beaded lizard (H. alvarezi) Guatemalan beaded lizard (H. charlesbogerti) Rio Fuerte beaded lizard (H. exasperatum) Mexican beaded lizard (H. horridum) Gila monster (H. suspectum)
Lanthanotus	Earless monitor lizard (L. borneensis)
Varanus	Asian water monitor (V. salvator) Black tree monitor (V. beccarii) Black-headed monitor (V. tristis) Bengal monitor (V. bengalensis) Black-spotted ridge-tailed monitor (V. baritji) Blue-tailed monitor (V. doreanus) Crocodile monitor (V. salvadorii) Desert monitor (V. griseus) Dumeril's monitor (V. dumerilii) Emerald tree monitor (V. prasinus) Gray's monitor (V. olivaceus) Kimberely rock monitor (V. glauerti) Komodo dragon (V. komodoensis) Lace monitor (V. varius) Mangrove monitor (V. indicus) Merten's water monitor (V. mertensi) Mitchell's water monitor (V. mitchelli) Nile monitor (V. niloticus) Northern Sierra Madre forest monitor (V. bitatawa) Peacock monitor (V. auffenbergi) Peach-throated monitor (V. jobiensis) Perentie (V. giganteus) Pygmy mulga monitor (V. gilleni) Quince monitor (V. melinus) Rock monitor (V. albigularis) Pilbara monitor (V. bushi) Rennel Island monitor (V. juxtindicus) Rosenberg's monitor (V. rosenbergi) Roughneck monitor (V. rudicollis) Short-tailed pygmy monitor (V. brevicauda) Spiny-tailed monitor (V. acanthurus) Turquoise monitor (V. caerulivirens) Sand goanna (V. gouldii) Savannah monitor (V. exanthematicus) Yellow monitor (V. flavescens) Yellow-spotted monitor (V. panoptes) Yemen monitor (V. yemenensis)
Related categories	Monitor lizards Cretaceous lizards Helodermatidae

Fossil taxa

†Palaeovaranidae	Palaeovaranus Eosaniwa Paranecrosaurus
Varanidae	Megalania (Varanus priscus) Saniwa Varanus amnhophilis
Others	Arcanosaurus Aiolosaurus Cherminotus Gobiderma Morohasaurus Ovoo Telmasaurus Palaeosaniwa Saniwides Estesia

Taxon identifiers
Varanus nebulosus	Wikidata: Q2714853 Wikispecies: Varanus nebulosus CoL: 7FG7P EoL: 790009 GBIF: 2470732 iNaturalist: 39435 IRMNG: 10364871 ITIS: 716528 NCBI: 735376 Observation.org: 104393 Open Tree of Life: 933489 RD: nebulosus Species+: 6506

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