Classification
Genus Varanus
Subgenus Empagusia:
- V. bengalensis, Bengal Monitor
- V. b. bengalensis, Bengal Monitor
- V. b. nebulosus, Clouded Monitor
- V. dumerilii, Dumeril's Monitor
- V. flavescens, Yellow Monitor
- V. rudicollis, Black Roughneck Monitor
Subgenus Euprepiosaurus:
- V. beccarii, Black Tree Monitor
- V. boehmei, Golden-spotted Tree Monitor
- V. bogerti, Bogert's Tree Monitor
- V. caerulivirens, Turquoise Monitor
- V. cerambonensis, Ambon Monitor
- V. doreanus, Blue-tailed Monitor
- V. finschi, Finsch's Monitor
- V. indicus, Mangrove Monitor
- V. jobiensis, Peach-throat Monitor
- V. juxtindicus, Rennell Island Monitor
- V. keithhornei, Canopy Goanna, Nesbit River Monitor
- V. kordensis, Biak Tree Monitor
- V. macraei, Blue-spotted Tree Monitor
- V. melinus, Quince Monitor
- V. lirungensis, Lirung Monitor
- V. obor, Sago Monitor
- V. prasinus, Emerald Tree Monitor, Emerald Monitor
- V. rainerguentheri Rainerguenther's Monitor
- V. reisingeri, Reisinger's Tree Monitor
- V. telenesetes, Rossel Island Tree Monitor
- V. yuwonoi, Tri-colored Monitor
- V. zugorum, Zug's Monitor
Subgenus Odatria:
- V. acanthurus, Ridge-tailed Monitor
- V. a. acanthurus, Spiny-tailed Monitor
- V. a. brachyurus, Common Ridge-tailed Monitor
- V. a. insulanicus, Island Ridge-tailed Monitor
- V. auffenbergi, Peacock Monitor
- V. baritji, White's Dwarf Monitor, Black-spotted Ridge-tailed Monitor, Black-spotted Spiny-tailed Monitor
- V. brevicauda, Short-tailed Monitor
- V. bushi, Pilbara Monitor, Bush's Monitor
- V. caudolineatus, Stripe-tailed Monitor
- V. eremius, Desert Pygmy Monitor
- V. gilleni, Pygmy Mulga Monitor
- V. glauerti, Kimberley Rock Monitor
- V. glebopalma, Black-palmed Rock Monitor
- V. kingorum, King's Monitor
- V. mitchelli, Mitchell's Water Monitor
- V. pilbarensis, Pilbara Rock Monitor
- V. primordius, Blunt-spined Monitor
- V. scalaris, Banded Tree Monitor
- V. semiremex, Rusty Monitor
- V. similis, Spotted Tree Monitor
- V. storri, Storr's Monitor
- V. s. storri, Eastern Storr's Monitor
- V. s. ocreatus, Western Storr's Monitor
- V. timorensis, Timor Monitor
- V. tristis, Black-headed Monitor
- V. t. orientalis, Freckled Monitor
Subgenus Papusaurus:
- V. salvadorii, Crocodile Monitor
Subgenus Philippinosaurus:
- V. bitatawa, Northern Sierra Madre Forest Monitor Lizard, Bitatawa
- V. mabitang, Panay Monitor
- V. olivaceus, Gray's Monitor
Subgenus Polydaedalus:
- V. albigularis, Rock Monitor
- V. a. albigularis, White-throated Monitor
- V. a. angolensis, Angola White-throated Monitor
- V. a. microstictus, Eastern White-throated Monitor
- V. exanthematicus, Savannah Monitor
- V. niloticus, Nile Monitor
- V. ornatus, Ornate Monitor
- V. yemenensis, Yemen Monitor
Subgenus Psammosaurus:
- †V. darevskii (extinct)
- V. griseus, Desert Monitor
- V. g. griseus, Desert Monitor
- V. g. caspius, Caspian Monitor
- V. g. koniecznyi, Thar Desert monitor
Subgenus Soterosaurus:
- V. cumingi, Cuming's Water Monitor
- V. marmoratus, Phiippine Water Monitor
- V. nuchalis, Large-scaled Water Monitor
- V. palawanensis Palawan Water Monitor
- V. rasmusseni Rasmussen's Water Monitor
- V. salvator, Water Monitor
- V. s. salvator, Sri Lankan Water Monitor
- V. s. andamanensis, Andaman Islands Water Monitor
- V. s. bivittatus, Two-striped Water Monitor
- V. s. macromaculatus, Southeast Asian Water Monitor
- V. s. ziegleri, Ziegler's Water Monitor
- V. togianus, Togian Water Monitor
Subgenus †Varaneades:
- †V. amnhophilis
Subgenus Varanus:
- V. giganteus, Perentie
- V. gouldii, Sand Goanna or Gould's Goanna
- V. komodoensis, Komodo Dragon
- V. mertensi, Mertens' Monitor
- V. panoptes
- V. p. panoptes, Argus Monitor
- V. p. horni, Horn's Monitor
- V. p. rubidus, Yellow-spotted Monitor
- †V. priscus, Megalania (extinct)
- V. rosenbergi, Rosenberg's Goanna or Heath Monitor
- V. spenceri, Spencer's Goanna
- V. varius, Lace Monitor
Unassigned species:
- V. spinulosus, Spiny-Necked Monitor, Solomon Island Spiny Monitor
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