Trioceros

Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Acrodonta |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Chamaeleonidae
Subfamilia: Chamaeleoninae
Genus: Trioceros
Species (41):
T. affinis –
T. balebicornutus –
T. bitaeniatus –
T. camerunensis –
T. chapini –
T. conirostratus –
T. cristatus –
T. deremensis –
T. ellioti –
T. feae –
T. fuelleborni –
T. goetzei –
T. hanangensis –
T. harennae –
T. hoehnelii –
T. incornutus –
T. ituriensis –
T. jacksonii –
T. johnstoni –
T. kinangopensis –
T. kinetensis –
T. laterispinis –
T. marsabitensis –
T. melleri –
T. montium –
T. narraioca –
T. ntunte –
T. nyirit –
T. oweni –
T. perreti –
T. pfefferi –
T. quadricornis –
T. rudis –
T. schoutedeni –
T. schubotzi –
T. serratus –
T. sternfeldi –
T. tempeli –
T. werneri –
T. wiedersheimi –
T. wolfgangboehmei
Name
[edit]- Type species: Trioceros grayii Swainson, 1839, by monotypy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Triceras Fitzinger, 1843 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Triceras Lobarzewski, 1840]
- Type species: Chamaeleo oweni Gray, 1831, by original designation.
- Pterosaurus Gray, 1864: 467 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Pterosaurus Fitzinger, 1843]
- Type species: Chamaeleo cristatus Gray, 1845 [=Stutchbury, 1837], by monotypy.
- Ensirostris Gray, 1864: 468
- Type species: Ensirostris melleri Gray, 1864, by monotypy.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Swainson, W. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Spottiswoode & Co.: London. vol. 2: i–vi + 1–448. BHL Reference page.
- Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Klaver, C.J. & Böhme, W. 1997. Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich, 112: XIV, 1–85. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co. Reference page.
- Krause, P. & Böhme, W. 2010. A new chameleon of the Trioceros bitaeniatus complex from Mt. Hanang, Tanzania, East Africa (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 57(1): 19–29. 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

- Stipala, J., Lutzmann, N., Malonza, P.K., Borghesio, L., Wilkinson, P., Godley, B. & Evans, M.R. 2011. A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) from the highlands of northwest Kenya. Zootaxa 3002(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3002.1.1
Reference page. - Stipala, J., Lutzmann, N., Malonza, P.K., Wilkinson, P., Godley, B., Nyamache, J. & Evans, M.R. 2012. A new species of chameleon (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) from the Aberdare Mountains in the central highlands of Kenya. Zootaxa 3391(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3391.1.1
Reference page. - Koppetsch, T., Nečas, P. & Wipfler, B. 2021. A new chameleon of the Trioceros affinis species complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) from Ethiopia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 161–179. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.57297
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Trioceros . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 May 2025.
Vernacular names
[edit]- English: Equatorial Chameleons