Monitor lizard
type: Taxon
label: Varan @cs
label: Βαράνος @el
label: Варан @uk
label: 巨蜥 @zh
label: Varanus @it
label: Warane @de
label: Varano @eo
label: Laghairt mhonatóra @ga
label: ورل @ar
label: 왕도마뱀류 @ko
label: Вараны @ru
label: Lagarto Monitor @pt
label: Biawak @in
label: Varaner @sv
subject: Category:Extant Miocene first appearances
subject: Category:Varanus
subject: Category:Taxa named by Blasius Merrem
subject: Category:Venomous lizards
footer: A Bell's phase lace monitor in a tree
type species: Lacerta varia
type species authority: Shaw, 1790
image: Bell's phase lace monitor 2 cropped.jpg
image: Bell's phase lace monitor cropped.jpg
align: right
range map caption: Combined native range of all the monitor lizards
authority: Merrem, 1820
subdivision: Solomonsaurus
subdivision: Psammosaurus
subdivision: Empagusia
subdivision: Hapturosaurus
subdivision: Euprepiosaurus
subdivision: Varanus
subdivision: Polydaedalus
subdivision: Odatria
subdivision: Soterosaurus
subdivision: Papusaurus
subdivision: For species, see text
subdivision: Philippinosaurus
subdivision ranks: Subgenera
taxon: Varanus
name: Monitor lizard
description: genus of reptiles
description: род влечуги @bg
description: tangka̱i nyam mi̱ kwai a̱mbwuok @kcg
description: সরীসৃপের গণ @bn
description: Kanlin alɔtɔ @fon
description: krypdyrslekt @nn
description: büyük kertenkele @tr
description: ߓߛߊߟߞߊ ߞߎ߲߬ߓߊ߬ߓߊ ߘߏ߫ @nqo
description: genere di animali della famiglia Varanidae @it
description: gen de reptile @ro
description: جنس من الزواحف @ar
description: genero di repteri @io
description: xénero de lagartos @gl
description: Gattung der Familie Warane (Varanidae) @de
description: genus reptil @in
description: roomajate perekond @et
description: géineas reiptílí @ga
description: género de reptiles @es
description: 巨蜥科的一属爬行动物 @zh
description: خزندگان @fa
description: hagadisgeslacht uit de familie varanen @nl
description: xéneru de reptiles @ast
description: rod plazů @cs
description: род ящериц из инфраотряда Paleoanguimorpha @ru
description: တွားသွားသတ္တဝါ မျိုးစု @my
description: סוג של זוחל @iw
description: e zvarranikëve @sq
description: hüllőnem @hu
description: varānu dzimtas ģints @lv
description: gènere de rèptils @ca
description: genre de reptiles @fr
description: рід плазунів @uk
description: släkte och familj av reptiler @sv
wiki page external link: http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/faunabase/_asp_bin/ByFamilyCommonNamecx.asp%3Fd=Reptiles&f=Varanidae
wiki page external link: http://www.komodonationalpark.org/downloads/ciofi%201999.pdf
wiki page external link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.02.931188v1%7Cjournal=bioRxiv%7Clanguage=en%7Cpages=2020.02.02.931188%7Cdoi=10.1101/2020.02.02.931188%7Cs2cid=211297088