#1729 · 🦎 reptiles

Clouded Monitor

🇳🇱 Nevelvaraan ·Varanus nebulosus

🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © marcelfinlay · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © budak · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ian Dugdale · CC BY 4.0
4. © marcelfinlay · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © max_hof_mann · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Muhd Nasry · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Tioman Island, Kuala Rompin, Pahang, MY:© teelo · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 53 หมู่ที่ 1 Tambon Nong Pla Lai, Amphoe Mueang Saraburi, Chang Wat Saraburi 18000, Thailand:© benjamynweil · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ban Phue, Ban Phue District, Udon Thani 41160, Thailand:© Navapol Komanasin · CC BY 4.0
10. MFPV+CQV, Hai Sok, Ban Phue District, Udon Thani 41160, Thailand:© Navapol Komanasin · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

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. It had previously been listed as a subspecies of Varanus bengalensis by some herpetologists. It is a diurnal monitor.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,091iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,091 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1831 (195 years ago).