Rhampholeon tilburyi Branch, Bayliss & Tolley, 2014

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 170

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.9948

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DA068DA-B881-4091-99FE-252D31DDC7D1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BCC60D63-1AF1-7517-F0A0-D6CB2A209409

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scientific name

Rhampholeon tilburyi Branch, Bayliss & Tolley, 2014
status

 

Rhampholeon tilburyi Branch, Bayliss & Tolley, 2014

Material

Mt. Namuli ( PEM R21155 View Materials , female, 58.7 mm SVL; PEM R21156 View Materials , female, 53.2 mm SVL; PEM R21157 View Materials , male, 62.2 mm SVL; PEM R21158 View Materials , male, 65.4 mm SVL; PEM R21160 View Materials , male, 62.7 mm SVL; PEM R21161 View Materials , male, 61.4 mm SVL; PEM R21162 View Materials , male, 66.5 mm SVL; PEM R21163 View Materials , female, 69.7 mm SVL; PEM R21174 View Materials , female, 61.1 mm SVL; PEM R21175 View Materials ; PEM R21176 View Materials , female, 57.6 mm SVL; PEM R21177 View Materials , juvenile, 26.6 mm SVL; PEM R21178 View Materials , female, 52.3 mm SVL; PEM R21191 View Materials , female, 60.6 mm SVL; PEM R21192 View Materials , male, 45.4 mm SVL; PEM R21193 View Materials , juvenile male, 28.2 mm SVL; PEM R21194 View Materials , female, 58.2 mm SVL) .

Comments

This newly described species of pygmy chameleon was collected from Mt. Namuli at both the Ukalini forest and the forest patches on the Muretha Plateau (Fig. 4B View Figure 4 ). Considerable morphological differences, e.g. well-developed dorsal crenulations, continues and well developed temporal ridge, and reduced rostral and supraocular processes, were observed between the two sub-populations of Mt. Namuli.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Chamaeleonidae

Genus

Rhampholeon