Trioceros
Appearance
Trioceros | |
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Jackson's three-horned chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii ) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
Subfamily: | Chamaeleoninae |
Genus: | Trioceros Swainson, 1839 |
Type species | |
Chamaeleo oweni |
Trioceros is a genus of lizards in the family Chamaeleonidae. Trioceros was considered a subgenus of the genus Chamaeleo until 2009, when it was elevated to full genus level.[1][2]
Species and subspecies
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[3]
Image | Name | Common Name | Subspecies | Distribution |
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Trioceros affinis (Rüppell, 1845) |
beardless Ethiopian montane chameleon, Rüppell's desert chameleon | Ethiopia. | ||
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Trioceros balebicornutus (Tilbury, 1998) |
Bale two-horned chameleon | Ethiopia. | |
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Trioceros bitaeniatus (Fischer, 1884) |
side-striped chameleon, two-lined chameleon | Ethiopia, southern Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
Trioceros camerunensis (L. Müller, 1909) |
Cameroon dwarf chameleon | Cameroon. | ||
Trioceros chapini (de Witte, 1964) |
Chapin's chameleon,[4] grey chameleon | Gabon and Democratic Republic of the Congo. | ||
Trioceros conirostratus (Tilbury, 1998) |
South Sudanese unicorn chameleon | South Sudan and Uganda. | ||
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Trioceros cristatus (Stutchbury, 1837) |
crested chameleon, fringed chameleon | Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo. | |
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Trioceros deremensis (Matschie, 1892) |
Usambara giant three-horned chameleon, wavy chameleon | East Usambara, Uluguru, Nguu and Nguru Mountains, and Udzungwa Mountains. | |
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Trioceros ellioti (Günther, 1895) |
Elliot's chameleon,[5] montane side-striped chameleon, Elliot's groove-throated chameleon | Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
Trioceros feae (Boulenger, 1906) |
Bioko hornless chameleon, Bioko montane chameleon, Fea's chameleon | Bioko. | ||
Trioceros fuelleborni (Tornier, 1900) |
(named after Friedrich Fülleborn),[6] flapjack chameleon, Ngosi Volcano chameleon, Poroto three-horned chameleon, mountain three-horned chameleon | Tanzania | ||
Trioceros goetzei (Tornier, 1899) |
Goetze's chameleon,[7] Ilolo chameleon, Goetze's whistling chameleon |
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Tanzania and Malawi. | |
Trioceros hanangensis Krause & Böhme , 2010 |
Mount Hanang montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Hanang chameleon | Tanzania | ||
Trioceros harennae (Largen, 1995) |
Harenna hornless chameleon | Ethiopia | ||
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Trioceros hoehnelii (Steindachner, 1891) |
helmeted chameleon, high-casqued chameleon, von Höhnel's chameleon[9] | Kenya and Uganda | |
Trioceros incornutus (Loveridge, 1932) |
Ukinga hornless chameleon | Tanzania | ||
Trioceros ituriensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1919) |
Ituri forest chameleon | Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. | ||
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Trioceros jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) |
Jackson's chameleon[10] |
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south-central Kenya and northern Tanzania. |
Trioceros johnstoni (Boulenger, 1901) |
Johnston's chameleon,[11] Johnston's three-horned chameleon, Ruwenzori three-horned chameleon | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda | ||
Trioceros kinangopensis Stipala et al., 2012 |
Aberdare Mountains dwarf chameleon | Kenya. | ||
Trioceros kinetensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1943) |
Mount Kineti montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Kineti chameleon | South Sudan. | ||
Trioceros laterispinis (Loveridge, 1932) |
spiny-flanked chameleon | United Republic of Tanzania, East Africa. | ||
Trioceros marsabitensis (Tilbury, 1991) |
Marsabit one-horned chameleon, Mt. Marsabit chameleon, Tilbury's chameleon | Kenya. | ||
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Trioceros melleri (Gray, 1865) |
giant one-horned chameleon, Meller's chameleon,[12] Meller's giant one-horned chameleon | Malawi, northern Mozambique, and Tanzania | |
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Trioceros montium (Buchholz, 1874) |
Cameroon sailfin chameleon | Cameroon. | |
Trioceros narraioca (Nečas, Modrý & Šlapeta, 2003) |
Mount Kulal chameleon or Mount Kulal stump-nosed chameleon | Kenya | ||
Trioceros ntunte (Nečas, Modry & Slapeta, 2005) |
Mount Nyiru chameleon, Nyiru montane dwarf chameleon | Kenya | ||
Trioceros nyirit Stipala et al., 2011 |
Mount Mtelo stump-nosed chameleon, Pokot chameleon | Kenya | ||
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Trioceros oweni (Gray, 1831) |
Owen's chameleon[13] | Nigeria in the north, to Angola in the south, and Burundi in the east | |
Trioceros perreti (Klaver & Böhme, 1992) |
Perret's chameleon,[14] Perret's montane chameleon | Cameroon. | ||
Trioceros pfefferi (Tornier, 1900) |
Pfeffer's two-horned chameleon,[15] Pfeffer's chameleon, Bakossi two-horned chameleon | Cameroon. | ||
Trioceros quadricornis (Tornier, 1899) |
four-horned chameleon |
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western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria. | |
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Trioceros rudis (Boulenger, 1906) |
coarse chameleon, rough chameleon, Ruwenzori side-striped chameleon, Rwenzori bearded montane dwarf chameleon | western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern DR Congo | |
Trioceros schoutedeni (Laurent, 1952) |
Schouteden's montane dwarf chameleon[16] | Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo. | ||
Trioceros schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1912) |
Mount Kenya montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Kenya side-striped chameleon, Schubotz's chameleon[17] | Kenya | ||
Trioceros serratus (Mertens, 1922) |
Cameroon | |||
Trioceros sternfeldi (Rand, 1963) |
(named after Richard Sternfeld),[18] Crater Highlands side-striped chameleon, Tanzanian montane dwarf chameleon | Tanzania | ||
Trioceros tempeli (Tornier, 1899) |
Tanzania mountain chameleon, Tempel's chameleon,[19] Udzungwa double-bearded chameleon | Tanzania | ||
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Trioceros werneri (Tornier, 1899) |
Werner's chameleon,[20] Wemer's chameleon, Wemer's three-horned chameleon | Tanzania | |
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Trioceros wiedersheimi (Nieden, 1910) |
Mount Lefo chameleon, Wiedersheim's chameleon[21] | Cameroon and Nigeria | |
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Trioceros wolfgangboehmei Koppetsch, Nečas & Wipfler, 2021 |
Ethiopia. |
Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trioceros.
Footnotes
- ^ a b Trioceros oweni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 May 2022.
- ^ Tilbury & Tolley (2009).
- ^ Trioceros at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 51.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 82.
- ^ Beolens et al., p.95.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 103.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 90.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 124.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 132.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 135.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 175.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 198.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 203.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 205,
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 237.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 238.
- ^ Beolens et al., 253.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 263.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 282.
- ^ Beolens et al., p. 285.
References
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- Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
- Tilbury, C.R., & Tolley, K.A. (2009). "A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa 2079: 57–68.
- Swainson, W. (1839). The Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians, & Reptiles, or Monocardian Animals. Vol. II. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans; John Taylor. (A. Spottiswoode, printer). 452 pp. (Trioceros, new genus, p. 369).