Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Sinon. Lacerta monitor; Stellio saurus; Varanus saurus; Lacerta nilotica; Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus
Refs: Gray, 1845; Bocage, 1866, , 1867, 1879, 1886, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1903; Ferreira, 1900, 1903; Tornier, 1901, 1902; Ferreira, 1902; Boulenger, 1906; Chabanaud, 1921; Andersson, 1937; Monard, 1937, 1938, 1940; Laurent, 1952, 1954, 1964; Grandison, 1956; Hellmich, 1957; Condamin & Villiers, 1962; Manaças, 1963; Papenfuss, 1969; Cissé & Karns, 1978; Miles et al., 1978; Joger, 1981, 1982; Welch, 1982; Branch & Braack, 1987; Capula, 1994
Distr.:. Larga em toda a África, exceptuando NW. Senegal, Gâmbia, Guiné-Bissau, Guiné, Libéria, Mali, Togo, Nigéria, Camarões, Egipto, Fernando Pó.