Neotype: ZFMK 22092, juvenile, collected by B. Schulz, March 1978, donated by B. Schulz, April 1978.
Holotype: IM 2176, juvenile [andamanensis]
Synonyms
- Varanus salvator salvator (LAURENTI 1768)
- Stellio salvator LAURENTI 1768: 58
- Tupinambis elegans DAUDIN 1802 (in part)
- Monitor nigricans CUVIER 1829: 27
- Monitor exilis GRAY in GRIFFITH 1831
- Monitor bivittatus var. celebensis SCHLEGEL 1844
- Hydrosaurus salvator — GRAY 1845: 13
- Monitor salvator — BLYTH 1846: 376
- Varanus salvator — CANTOR 1847: 635
- Hydrosaurus salvator — KELAART 1854: 137
- Varanus salvator — BOULENGER 1885: 314
- Varanus salvator — DE ROOIJ 1915: 146
- Varanus scutigerulus BARBOUR 1932
- Varanus salvator salvator — MERTENS 1937
- Varanus salvator kabaragoya DERANIYAGALA 1947
- Varanus salvator salvator — DE LISLE 1996: 134
- Varanus salvator — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 292
- Varanus (Soterosaurus) salvator — ZIEGLER & BÖHME 1997
- Varanus salvator — COX et al. 1998: 107
- Varanus salvator adamanensis DERANIYAGALA 1944
- Varanus salvator andamanensis - MERTENS 1963
- Varanus salvator andamanensis — BÖHME 2002
- Varanus salvator andamanensis — KOCH et al. 2007
- Varanus salvator bivittatus (KUHL 1820)
- Tupinambis bivittatus KUHL 1820
- Monitor nigricans CUVIER 1829: 27 (fide MERTENS 1963)
- Varanus bivittatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 486
- Monitor bivittatus var. javanica SCHLEGEL 1844
- Varanus crocodilinus OWEN 1845
- Varanus salvator bivittatus — MERTENS 1959: 17
- Varanus salvator bivittatus — BÖHME 2002
- Varanus salvator macromaculatus DERANIYAGALA 1944
- Varanus vittatus LESSON 1834: 307
- Varanus salvator nicobariensis DERANIYAGALA 1947
- Varanus salvator komaini NUTAPHAND 1987
- Varanus salvator komaini — DWYER & PEREZ 2007
- Varanus salvator macromaculatus — KOCH et al. 2007
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