A NEW SPECIES OF CHAMELEON (REPTILIA SAURIA CHAMAELEONIDAE) FROM MONTANE FOREST IN ETHIOPIA

Authors
LARGEN MJ
Citation
Mj. Largen, A NEW SPECIES OF CHAMELEON (REPTILIA SAURIA CHAMAELEONIDAE) FROM MONTANE FOREST IN ETHIOPIA, Tropical zoology, 8(2), 1995, pp. 333-339
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Tropical zoology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03946975
Volume
8
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
333 - 339
Database
ISI
SICI code
0394-6975(1995)8:2<333:ANSOC(>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A new species, Chamaeleo harennae, is described from forested sites in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. In the form and relative prominence o f crests on the posterior region of the head, it closely resembles C. affinis Ruppell 1845, but differs most conspicuously from this species in the possession of an exceptionally well developed gular crest, sim ilar to that found in C. hoehnelii Steindachner 1891 and C. rudis Boul enger 1906.