Chamaeleo dilepis Leach, 1819

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Chamaeleo dilepis Leach, 1819

Fig. 9 d

Records.

Catchi surroundings [- 13.7620, 13.2569, 1585 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001781 - 001782).

Comments.

Chamaeleo dilepis is a species complex distributed throughout southern and eastern Africa ( Tilbury 2010). Marques et al. (2018) opted to identify all Angolan records as C. dilepis quilensis and showed its large distribution throughout the country. More recently, Main et al. (2022) provided evidence of several divergent lineages that may warrant a species-level status. For this paper and until the taxonomy of the group is clarified, we simply refer to the Serra da Neve populations as C. dilepis .

Figures

Figure 9. a Trachylepis chimbana b Trachylepis huilensis c Trachylepis laevis d Chamaeleo dilepis e Agama aculeata f Agama schacki (male) g Agama schacki (female) h Afrotyphlops schlegeli petersii. Photographs by AT (a, c, d, f, g) and LMPC (b, e, h).