Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 30

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7304661

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Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831 )
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Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831)

Chamaeleo oweni Gray, 1831: 7 . Type locality: Fernando Po (=Bioko).

Chamaeleo tricornis Duméril & Bibron, 1836: 227 . Type locality: Fernando Po (=Bioko).

Chamaeleo bibroni Martin, 1838: 65 . Type locality: Fernando Po (=Bioko).

Chamaeleo grayii Swainsson, 1839: 369 (nomen substitutum pro Chamaeleo oweni ).

Chamaeleo unicornis Mocquard, 1906: 464 . Type locality: Ngomo , dans le bas Ogoue, Gabon.

Chamaeleo oweni cristata Sternfeld, 1912: 259 (non Chamaeleo cristatus Stutchbury, 1837 ).

Type locality: “Landana in Loango, nördlich der Kongomündung”, Democratic Republic of the Congo .

Chamaeleo michelli Müller, 1913: 230 . Type locality: “ Station Go am Rulei , unterer Uelle District ”, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831) : Tilbury & Tolley 2009: 66.

Distribution. It ranges across central Africa, from Cameroon to the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southward to Cabinda ( Angola). In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Bioko ( Gray 1831; Martínez y Sáez 1886; Boulenger 1887) at Bissé ( Bocage 1895 a, 1903), Natividad (Hacienda Natividad) ( Bocage 1895 a, 1903), San Carlos ( Mertens 1941, 1964), Riaba (=Concepción) ( Mertens 1964a; Pérez del Val 2001) and Sampaka, Malabo (Pérez del Val 2001), and in Río Muni at Monte Alén National Park ( Lasso et al. 2002) ( Map 5C View MAPS 5 ).

Comments. Rarely found in Monte Alén National Park ( Lasso et al. 2002).

Specimens examined. Nineteen specimens. Equatorial Guinea, without specific locality ( MNCN 5099–5100 View Materials , 5866 View Materials ; EBD, labels with the numbers 3313 and 3325). Río Muni: Bome , Bata, 25 May 1987 ( EBD 24994) ; Bata, 19 October 1984 ( EBD 18372) ; Aconibe, 7 July 1987 ( EBD 27488) ; Río Muni, 1963 ( EBD 2730 View Materials ) ; Etom, a 13 km de Aconibe, 22 April 1987 ( EBD 24972–24973 View Materials ) ; Noayong, Km 23, road from Evinayong to Aconibe , 13 September 1987 ( EBD 24995) . Bioko: Malabo, 13 October 1984 ( EBD 18393) ; seminario de Banapá, Malabo, Bioko ( EBD 22093–22094 View Materials ) ; Finca Sampaka, Malabo, 1941 ( MNCN 5101 View Materials ) ; Bioko, without specific locality ( MNCN 5113 View Materials ) ; Bioko, without specific locality, 24 April 1886 ( MNCN 5115 View Materials ) ; Riaba (= Concepción), August 1959 ( MNCN 18458 View Materials ) .

EBD

Estacion Biologica de Donana

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Chamaeleonidae

Genus

Trioceros

Loc

Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La 2022
2022
Loc

Trioceros oweni ( Gray, 1831 )

Tilbury, C. R. & Tolley, K. A. 2009: 66
2009
Loc

Chamaeleo michelli Müller, 1913: 230

Muller, L. 1913: 230
1913
Loc

Chamaeleo oweni cristata

Sternfeld, R. 1912: 259
1912
Loc

Chamaeleo unicornis

Mocquard, F. 1906: 464
1906
Loc

Chamaeleo bibroni

Martin, W. 1838: 65
1838
Loc

Chamaeleo tricornis Duméril & Bibron, 1836: 227

Dumeril, A. M. C. & Bibron, G. 1836: 227
1836
Loc

Chamaeleo oweni

Gray, J. E. 1831: 7
1831
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