Reptiles Database

Subspecies

Synonym

Chamaeleo africanus LAURENTI 1768: 46
Chamaeleo candidus LAURENTI 1768 (?)
Chamaeleo mexicanus LAURENTI 1768 (?)
Chamaeleo aegyptius BONNATERRE 1789
Chamaeleo calcaratus MERREM 1820: 162
Chamaeleon basiliscus COPE 1868
Chamaeleon basiliscus — BOULENGER 1897: 132
Chamaeleon basiliscus — WERNER 1911: 11
Chamaeleon basiliscus — LOVERIDGE 1936: 75
Chamaeleo africanus — MERTENS 1966: 17
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — KLAVER & BÖHME 1986: 59
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — KLAVER & BÖHME 1997
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — NECAS 1999: 110
Chamaeleo africanus — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009

Holotype

References

• Bonnaterre, P.J. 1789. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, . . . Erpétologie. Panckoucke, Paris, xxviii+71 pp.
• Boulenger, G. A. 1898. On a second collection of reptiles made by Mr. E. Lord-Phillips in Somaliland. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 2: 130-133
• Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59.
• Cope, E.D. 1869. Observations on Reptiles of the old world. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1868: 316-323
• Dimaki, Maria, Anna K. Hundsdörfer and Uwe Fritz. 2008. Eastern Mediterranean chameleons Chamaeleo chamaeleon, Ch. africanus are distinct. Amphibia-Reptilia 29 (4):535-540
• Gonwouo, L.N.; LeBreton, M.; Wild, C.; Chirio, L.; Ngassam, P. & Tchamba, M.N. 2006. Geographic and ecological distribution of the endemic montane chameleons along the Cameroon maountain range. Salamandra 42 (4): 213-230
• Klaver,C. & BÖHME,W. 1986. Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria), with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonn. zool. Monogr., 22: 1-64.
• Kosuch, Joachim, Miguel Vences and Wolfgang Böhme. 1999. Mitochondrial DNA sequence data support the allocation of Greek mainland chameleons to Chamaeleo africanus. Amphibia-Reptilia 20 (4): 440-443
• Laurenti, J. N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austracorum, quod authoritate et consensu. Vienna, Joan. Thomae, 217 pp.
• Loveridge,A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 [53].
• Macey, J. Robert; Jennifer V. Kuehl, Allan Larson, Michael D. Robinson, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Natalia B. Ananjeva, Hafizur Rahman, Hamid Iqbal Javed, Ridwan Mohamed Osman, Ali Doumma, Theodore J. Papenfuss 2008. Socotra Island the forgotten fragment of Gondwana: Unmasking chameleon lizard history with complete mitochondrial genomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (3): 1015-1018
• Merrem, B. 1820. Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien I (Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum). J. C. Kriegeri, Marburg, 191 pp.
• Mertens, Robert 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich 83: 1-37
• Necas, Petr 1999. Chameleons - Nature's Hidden Jewels. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt; 348 pp.; ISBN 3-930612-04-6 (Europe)ISBN 1-57524-137-4 (USA, Canada)
• Padial, J. M. 2006. COMMENTED DISTRIBUTIONAL LIST OF THE REPTILES OF MAURITANIA (WEST AFRICA). Graellsia, 62(2): 159-178
• Rutschke, J.; Koepe, D. & Deichsel, G. 2005. Beobachtungen zu anthropogenen Einflüssen auf die Reptilienfauna des Peloponnes (Griechenland). Herpetofauna 25 (143): 17-28 [2003/2004]
• Tilbury, C. R. & Tolley, Krystal A. 2009. A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2079: 57–68
• Trapp, B. 2004. Gute Nachrichten von griechischen Chamäleons. Elaphe 12 (2): 50-54
• Trapp, B. 2006. Reptilien und Amphibien des griechischen Festlandes. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 300 pp.
• Trapp,B. 2006. Chamaeleo africanus in Griechenland - es geht wieder bergauf. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (2): 4-6
• Werner 1911. Das Tierreich - Chamaeleonidae. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 27: xi + 52 pp.