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    Species Accepted

    Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766)

    Common Water Monitor
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Varanus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      32 results
      Agany Dinka
      Agɛny Dinka
      Common Water Monitor English
      Leguan English
      Monitor del Nilo Spanish
      Nijlvaraan Dutch
      Nile Monitor English
      Nile monitor lizard English
      Nilo varanas Lithuanian
      Nilvaran Norwegian Bokmål

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      186 results
      Böhme, W. & T. ZIEGLER. (1997). A taxonomic review of the Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766) species complex. The Herpetological Journal 7: 155-162.
      Fisher, Ian J.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Paul S. Freed & Mariana P. Marques. (2025). Reptiles and Amphibians of Cameroon (Central Africa) at the Collection of the Section of Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Part I - Chelonians, Crocodylians, and Lizards. Annals of Carnegie Museum Dec 2025 Vol. 91, No. 3: 223-258.
      Blanc, P., & Fretey, T. (2000). Les reptiles de la Réserve de La Lopé et de la Foret des Abeilles (Gabon). Bull. Soc. Zool. France 125 (4): 281-292.
      Largen, M. J., & Spawls, S. (2006). Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109.
      Cimatti, E. (2005). Scaly encounters in Kenya. Reptilia (GB) (42): 65-69.
      Amer, Sayed A. M. and Yoshinori Kumazawa. (2008). Timing of a mtDNA gene rearrangement and intercontinental dispersal of varanid lizards. Genes Genet. Syst. 83: 275–280.
      Observation.org contributors. 2018. "Download species lists". Observation.org, Nature observations form around the world. est. 2008. Hisko de Vries (man). Observation International Foundation. https://observation.org/download.php?lang=en&local=xx
      Brygoo, E. R. (1987). Les types de Varanides (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle. Catalogue critique. Bulletin Du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e Ser., 9, Sect. A (Zool., BioI. & Ecol. Anim.), (2), Supplement, 21-38.
      BRIAN, M., YATUHA, J., NKURUNUNGI, J. B., & TUMUSIIME, J. (2025). Integrating baseline field surveys with local ecological knowledge to assess the diversity patterns and conservation needs of herpetofauna in highly disturbed areas of Uganda. Herpetological Bulletin, 174, 1-9.
      Gossmann, V.; Lötters, S.; Obame, F. & Böhme, W. (2002). Zur Herpetofauna Gabuns. Teil II: Kommentierte Artenliste der gefundenen Reptilien, Bemerkungen zur Artenvielfalt. Herpetofauna 24 (136): 19-33.

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