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Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802)

Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Varanidae > Varanus

Identification

Accepted Name	Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802)
Taxonomy	Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Varanidae > Varanus
Name According to	Catalogue of Life
Original Name	Varanus bengalensis
Taxonomy Original Name	Animalia > Chordata > Reptilia > Squamata > Varanidae > Varanus > bengalensis
Status Original Name	accepted species
Resolving State	resolved on species level

Gathering Event

Country

Afghanistan (Asia)

Locality

18 km W (by Kabul Rd.) of Jalalabad

Collector(s)

Collector(s): Theodore J. Papenfuss

Collector's number

TJP 25965

Collection Date

2000-04-28

Collecting Source

wild

Tissue

Catalog Number

MVZ:Herp:237483

Collection Code

Herp

Institution Code

MVZ

Institution Full Name

Arctos/University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Record Basis

PreservedSpecimen

Sample Type

tissue

Establishment Means

wild caught

Type Status

voucher of Varanus bengalensis page 563 in Portik and Papenfuss 2012

Preparation

Type

tissue (95% ethanol)

Staff

Tiffany Yap

Permits

Status: Permit not available

Unknown permit type

Dataset Description

MVZ Herp Collection (Arctos) for GGBN
Description	The MVZ collection of amphibians and reptiles contains over 270,000 catalogued specimens. As of 8 April 2004, 123 of these have been designated holotypes, three are neotypes, three are syntypes, and 1793 are paratypes and paratopotypes. Most specimens are fluid-preserved, but the collection also contains skeletal preparations, sets of amphibian eggs and larvae, and several thousand specimens that have been cleared and stained. Other special collections include pineal organs, 800 sectioned heads, a series of dried anuran skins from California and Argentina, and stomach contents that have been removed from more than 3,000 predatory reptiles.
Rights	To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
Citation	Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley
Contacts
Staff Curator of Herpetology
Carol Spencer, atrox@berkeley.edu , 3101 Valley Life Science Building, CA US, 94720-3160, (510) 643-5778
VertNet Coordinator
David Bloom, dbloom@vertnet.org
Information Architect
John Wieczorek, gtuco.btuco@gmail.com
Arctos Database Programmer
Dusty McDonald, dlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Faculty Curator of Herpetology
Jim McGuire, mcguirej@berkeley.edu , 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, CA US, 94720-3160, (510) 316-6201
Faculty Curator of Herpetology
David Wake, wakelab@berkeley.edu , 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, CA US, 94720-3160, (510) 643-7705
GIS and Bioinformatics Specialist
Michelle Koo, mkoo@berkeley.edu , 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, CA US, 94720-3160, (510) 642-8547