Varanus gouldii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Varanoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Anguimorpha Infraordo: Paleoanguimorpha Superfamilia: Varanoidea

Varanus gouldii (Gray, 1838) [conserved name]

Neotype: BMNH 1997.1 (formerly WAM R131792), collected by G. Thompson on 29 September 1997. [designated by Opinion 1948 (2000: 63)]
Type locality: “Karakatta, Perth, Western Australia” by neotype designation.
Placed on the Official List of Specific Name by Opinion 1948 (2000: 63).

Varanus gouldii flavirufus Mertens, 1958: 250
- Holotype: SMF 53271.
- Type locality: Bat Caves near Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Pantherosaurus barryjonesi Wells & Wellington, 1985: 21
- Holotype: AM R116991 (field series no. 16812), collected by K. Blade on 6 March 1975.
- Type locality: “Hillston to Griffiths Road, New South Wales”.

Australia: Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 2. Annals of Natural History. Series 1 1(5): 388–394. DOI: 10.1080/00222933809512320 ; BHL Reference page.
Duméril, A.M.C. & Duméril, A.H.A. 1851. Catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Gide et Baudry/Roret: Paris. iv + 224 pp. Reference page.
Mertens, R. 1958. Bemerkungen über die Warane Australiens. Senckenbergiana biologica 39: 229–264.
Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2000. Opinion 1948. Hydrosaurus gouldii Gray, 1838 (currently Varanus gouldii) and Varanus panoptes Storr, 1980 (Reptilia, Squamata): specific names conserved by the designation of a neotype for H. gouldii. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(1): 63–65. BHL Reference page.

Böhme, W. 1991. The identity of Varanus gouldii (Gray, 1838), and the nomenclature of the V. gouldii species complex. Mertensiella 2: 38–41.
De Lisle, H.F. 2009. Catalog of the genus Varanus (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae) with new designations of a neotype and a lectotype. ZooNova 1: 8–32. Reference page.

Craig, M., Doughty, P. & Melville, J. 2018. IUCN: Varanus gouldii (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T83778110A101752320. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T83778110A101752320.en. Accessed on 10 March 2023.