Colin R. Tilbury

Colin R. Tilbury, South African herpetologist and entomologist.

Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Tilbury, C.R. 1991. A new species of Chamaeleo Laurenti 1768 (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae) from a relict montane forest in northern Kenya. Tropical Zoology 4(2): 159–165. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1991.10539486 Reference page.

Tilbury, C.R. 1992. A new dwarf forest chameleon (Sauria: Rhampholeon Günther 1874) from Malawi, central Africa. Tropical Zoology 5(1): 1–9. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1992.10539176 Reference page.

Tilbury, C.R. & Emmrich, D. 1996. A new dwarf forest chameleon (Squamata: Rhampholeon Günther 1874) from Tanzania, East Africa with notes on its infrageneric and zoogeographic relationships. Tropical Zoology 9(1): 61–71. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1996.10539303 Reference page.

Tilbury, C. 1998. Two new chameleons (Sauria:Chamaeleonidae) from isolated Afromontane forests in Sudan and Ethiopia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 47(3–4): 293–299. BHL Reference page.

Menegon, M., Salvidio, S. & Tilbury, C. 2002. A New Dwarf Forest Chameleon from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania, East Africa, (Squamata: Rhampholeon Günther, 1874). Journal of Herpetology 36(1): 51–57. DOI: 10.2307/1565801 Reference page.

Matthee, C.A., Tilbury, C.R & Townsend, T. 2004. A phylogenetic review of the African leaf chameleons: genus Rhampholeon (Chamaeleonidae): the role of vicariance and climate change in speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) 271(1551): 1967–1975. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2806 Reference page.

Branch, W.R., Tolley, K.A. & Tilbury, C.R. 2006. A new dwarf chameleon (Sauria: Bradypodion Fitzinger, 1843) from the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 55(2): 123–141. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2006.9635545 Reference page.
Mariaux, J. & Tilbury, C.R. 2006. The pygmy chameleons of the eastern Arc range (Tanzania): Evolutionary relationships and the description of three new species of Rhampholeon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). Herpetological Journal 16(3): 315–331. PDF Reference page.

Tilbury, C.R. & Tolley, K.A. 2009. A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2079: 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2079.1.2 Reference page.

Tilbury, C.R. & Tolley, K.A. 2015. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Albertine Rift: Two new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) from an isolated montane forest, south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Zootaxa 3905(3): 345–364. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.3.2 Reference page.
Menegon, M., Loader, S.P., Davenport, T.R.B., Howell, K.M., Tilbury, C.R., Machaga, S. & Tolley, K.A. 2015. A new species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) highlights the biological affinities between the Southern Highlands and Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Acta Herpetologica 10(2): 111–120. DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-17171 Reference page.

Portillo, F., Branch, W.R., Tilbury, C.R., Nagy, Z.T., Hughes, D.F., Kusamba, C., Muninga, W.M., Aristote, M.M., Behangana, M. & Greenbaum, E. 2019. A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa. Copeia 107(1): 22–36. DOI: 10.1643/CH-18-098 Reference page.

Tolley, K.A., Tilbury, C.R. & Burger, M. 2022. Convergence and vicariance: speciation of chameleons in the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa, and the description of three new species of Bradypodion Fitzinger, 1843. African Journal of Herpetology 71(1): 14–38. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2021.1998236 Reference page.

Hughes, D.F., Behangana, M., Lukwago, W., Menegon, M., Dehling, J.M., Wagner, P., Tilbury, C.R., South, T., Kusamba, C. & Greenbaum, E. 2024. Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa’s Albertine Rift. Zootaxa 5458(4): 451–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1 Reference page.