Chamaeleo dilepis Leach, 1819

Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Bayliss, Julian & Conradie, Werner, 2020, First herpetological surveys of Mount Lico and Mount Socone, Mozambique, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 247) 14 (2), pp. 198-217 : 207

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13258253

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scientific name

Chamaeleo dilepis Leach, 1819
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Flap-neck Chameleon

Material. MOUNT SOCONE (base): MHNM. Rep.2018.0002. Identification. Currently eight subspecies are recognized within C. dilepis ( Main et al. 2018) . We assign this specimen ( Fig. 4C View Fig ) to the typical race based on the presence of large moveable occipital lobes ( Tilbury 2018) and sequence similarity with C. d. dilepis from northern Mozambique (98% sequence similarity; DQ 923816). Comments. Local villagers brought two additional individuals to the campsite at the base of Mount Lico that were identified and subsequently released.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Chamaeleonidae

Genus

Chamaeleo

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