Family VARANIDAE 



96. Varanus bengalensis nebulosus (Gray, 1831) 



97. Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1786) 



* - endemic species 



KEYS AND SYNOPSES 



Pope, 1935 (China and Northern Vietnam); Smith, 1935 (India, Burma and Indochina); 

 Bourret, 1939d (French Indochina); 1943b (French Indochina); Mertens, 1959 (Indoaustralian 

 Varanus); Taylor, 1963 (Thailand, and particularly Vietnam); Peters, 1971 (Leiolepis); Dao, 

 1979 (Vietnam); Dring, 1979 (Asiatic Cnemaspis); Inger, Brown, 1980 (Dasia); Darevsky, 

 Nguyen, 1983 (Asiatic Ophisaurus, Vietnamese Sphenomorphus); Musters, 1983 (Draco); 

 Ouboter, 1983 (Asia.tic Scincella); Greer, 1985 (Dibamus); Brov/n, 1991 (Emoia);Daie\sky, 

 1992a (Chinese and Vietnamese Dibamus); Bobrov, 1992c (Vietnamese Mabuya), 1993a 

 (Vietnam), Darevsky, Kupriyanova, 1993 (Leiolepis); Zhao, Adler, 1993 (China); Bobrov, 

 in Press (Indochinese Tropidophorus). 



SPECIES INDEX 



GEKKONIDA E 



Cnemaspis boulengeri 

 Description. Strauch, 1887; Smith, 1921a (Gonatodes glaucus), 1935 

 Synonymy. Smith, 1935 

 Distribution. Strauch, 1887; Smith, 1921a, 1935: Nguyen, Ho, 1979; Darevsky, 



1990; Darevsky etal., 1991 

 Habitat. Darevsky et al., 1991 



Cosymbotus platyurus 

 Description . Smith, 1935 (Platyurus platyurus); Bourret, 1944 (Platyurus platyurus); 



Bobrov, 1992a 

 Synonymy. Smith, 1935 

 Distribution. Morice, 1875 (Nycteridium schneideri); Tirant, 1885 (Nycteridium 



schneideri); Strauch, 1887 (Hemidactylus platyurus); Smith, 1935; Bourret, 1944; 



