Trioceros
| Trioceros | |
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| Jackson's three-horned chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii ) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
| Subfamily: | Chamaeleoninae |
| Genus: | Trioceros Swainson, 1839 |
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]
Species and subspecies
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Trioceros affinis (Rüppell, 1845) – beardless Ethiopian mountain chameleon, Rüppell's desert chameleon
- Trioceros balebicornutus (Tilbury, 1998) – Bale Mountain two-horned chameleon
- Trioceros bitaeniatus (Fischer, 1884) – side-striped chameleon, two-lined chameleon, two-lined montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros camerunensis (L. Müller, 1909) – Cameroon chameleon
- Trioceros chapini (de Witte, 1964) – Chapin's chameleon,[3] grey chameleon
- Trioceros conirostratus (Tilbury, 1998) – Sudanese cone-horned chameleon
- Trioceros cristatus (Stutchbury, 1837) – crested chameleon, fringed chameleon
- Trioceros deremensis (Matschie, 1892) – Usambara giant three-horned chameleon, wavy chameleon
- Trioceros ellioti (Günther, 1895) – Elliot's chameleon,[4] Elliot's groove-throated side-striped chameleon, montane side-striped chameleon
- Trioceros feae (Boulenger, 1906) – Bioko hornless chameleon, Fea's chameleon
- Trioceros fuelleborni (Tornier, 1900) – (named after Friedrich Fülleborn),[5] flapjack chameleon, Ngosi Volcano chameleon, Poroto Mountain three-horned chameleon
- Trioceros goetzei (Tornier, 1899) – Goetze's chameleon,[6] Ilolo chameleon, whistling chameleon
- Trioceros goetzei goetzei (Tornier, 1899) – Goetze's whistling chameleon
- Trioceros goetzei nyikae (Loveridge, 1953) – Nyika whistling chameleon
- Trioceros hanangensis Krause & Böhme, 2010 – Mount Hanang montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros harennae (Largen, 1995) – Harenna hornless chameleon
- Trioceros harennae harennae (Largen, 1995) – Harenna hornless chameleon
- Trioceros harennae fitchi (Nečas, 2004) – Fitch's Harenna hornless chameleon[7]
- Trioceros hoehnelii (Steindachner, 1891) – helmeted chameleon, high-casqued chameleon, von Höhnel's chameleon[8]
- Trioceros incornutus (Loveridge, 1932) – Ukinga hornless chameleon
- Trioceros ituriensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1919) – Ituri forest chameleon
- Trioceros jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) – Jackson's chameleon[9]
- Trioceros jacksonii jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) – Jackson's three-horned chameleon
- Trioceros jacksonii merumontanus (Rand, 1958) – dwarf Jackson's chameleon
- Trioceros jacksonii xantholophus (Eason, Ferguson & Hebrard, 1988) – Mount Kenya three-horned chameleon, yellow-crested Jackson's chameleon
- Trioceros johnstoni (Boulenger, 1901) – Johnston's chameleon,[10] Johnston's three-horned chameleon, Ruwenzori three-horned chameleon
- Trioceros kinangopensis Stipala et al., 2012
- Trioceros kinetensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1943) – Mount Kineti montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros laterispinis (Loveridge, 1932) – spiny-flanked chameleon
- Trioceros marsabitensis (Tilbury, 1991) – Marsabit one-horned chameleon, Mt. Marsabit chameleon, Tilbury's cameleon
- Trioceros melleri (Gray, 1865) – giant one-horned chameleon, Meller's chameleon,[11] Meller's giant one-horned chameleon
- Trioceros montium (Buchholz, 1874) – Cameroon sailfin chameleon
- Trioceros narraioca (Nečas, Modrý & Šlapeta, 2003) – Mount Kulal helmeted chameleon
- Trioceros ntunte (Nečas, Modry & Slapeta, 2005) – Nyiru montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros nyirit Stipala et al., 2011 – Cherangani helmeted chameleon
- Trioceros oweni (Gray, 1831) – Owen's chameleon[12]
- Trioceros perreti (Klaver & Böhme, 1992) – Perret's chameleon,[13] southern peacock chameleon
- Trioceros pfefferi (Tornier, 1900) – Pfeffer's two-horned chameleon[14]
- Trioceros quadricornis (Tornier, 1899) – four-horned chameleon
- Trioceros quadricornis quadricornis (Tornier, 1899) – southern four-horned chameleon
- Trioceros quadricornis eisentrauti (Mertens, 1968) – Rumpi Hills chameleon
- Trioceros quadricornis gracilior (Böhme & Klaver, 1981) – northern four-horned chameleon
- Trioceros rudis (Boulenger, 1906) – coarse chameleon, rough chameleon, Ruwenzori side-striped chameleon, Rwenzori bearded montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros schoutedeni (Laurent, 1952) – Schouteden's montane dwarf chameleon[15]
- Trioceros schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1912) – Mount Kenya montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Kenya side-striped chameleon, Schubotz's chameleon[16]
- Trioceros serratus (Mertens, 1922) – central peacock chameleon
- Trioceros sternfeldi (Rand, 1963) – (named after Richard Sternfeld),[17] Tanzanian montane dwarf chameleon
- Trioceros tempeli (Tornier, 1899) – Tanzania mountain chameleon, Tempel's chameleon,[18] tubercle-nosed chameleon
- Trioceros werneri (Tornier, 1899) – Werner's chameleon,[19] Werner's three-horned chameleon
- Trioceros wiedersheimi (Nieden, 1910) – Mount Lefo chameleon, northern peacock chameleon, Wiedersheim's chameleon[20]
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
- ^ Tilbury & Tolley (2009).
- ^ "Trioceros ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (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).