ziegleri, Ziegler's water monitor, is from Obi Island. The type specimen was captured in Thailand. macromaculatus, the Southeast Asian water monitor, is found in mainland Southeast Asia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, and smaller associated offshore islands. bivittatus (Mertens 1959), the two-striped water monitor, is common to Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Alor, Wetar, and some neighbouring islands within the Sunda archipelago in Indonesia the type locality is Java. andamanensis, the Andaman Islands water monitor, inhabits the Andaman Islands and the Southern Nicobar Islands. salvator is the nominate subspecies and is now restricted to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the kabaragoya (කබරගොයා) in Sinhala and kalawathan in Tamil.
Research initiatives such as these are very important to assess changes in conservation assessments. Morphological analyses have begun to unravel this taxonomic uncertainty but molecular studies are needed to test and confirm the validity of certain groupings within this genus. There is a significant amount of taxonomic uncertainty within this species complex. The family Varanidae contains nearly 80 species of monitor lizards, all of which belong to the genus Varanus. Stellio salvator was the scientific name used by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768 for a water monitor specimen. Some common names for the species are Malayan water monitor, common water monitor, two-banded monitor, rice lizard, ring lizard, plain lizard, no-mark lizard and water monitor etc. salvadorii) because of their similar scientific names. The water monitor is occasionally confused with the crocodile monitor ( V. The specific name is the Latin word for "saviour", denoting a possible religious connotation. The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic waral ( ورل), which translates as "monitor". It was described by Laurenti in 1768 and is among the largest squamates in the world. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It is one of the most common monitor lizards in Asia, ranging from coastal northeast India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China to Indonesian islands where it lives close to water. The Asian water monitor ( Varanus salvator) is a large varanid lizard native to South and Southeast Asia.
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