Bradypodion ngomeense TILBURY & TOLLEY, 2009
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Bradypodion ngomeense
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| Higher Taxa | Chamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Ngome Dwarf Chameleon |
| Synonym | Bradypodion ngomeense TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009 Bradypodion ngomeense — TILBURY 2010: 282 Bradypodion ngomeense — CONRADIE et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | Republic of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) Type locality: Ngome Forest, KZN 27° 49’S, 31° 25’ E. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: PEM R 16621, an adult male collected by Devi Stuart-Fox and Adnan Moussalli on 6th January 2004. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A moderately large-bodied, long-tailed species of the genus Bradypodion demonstrating the characteristics of the genus (Tilbury et al. 2006). This species differs from its various congeners in the following respects: the adults have a relatively tall casque angled at (usually) over 30 degrees or more to the supra-orbital line in keeping with 6 other South African species - viz: B. damaranum (Boulenger 1887), B. dracomontanum Raw 1976, some B. ventrale (Gray 1845), B. thamnobates Raw 1976, B. transvaalense (Fitzsimons 1930) and B. nemorale Raw, 1978 (Qudeni ecomorph). It differs from B. ventrale which has a tail that is less than 50% of its snout /vent length; from B. thamnobates which has prominent enlarged plate-like flank tubercles; from B. damaranum which has areas of “naked” interstitium around the axilla and along the anterior para-vertebral zone; from B. nemorale which has a relatively much reduced gular crest, and a dorsal crest of cones larger than the diameter of the eye-opening; and from B. transvaalense (sensu stricta) where most adult specimens usually have dorsal cones larger than the eye opening and in which the superior temporal zone is pale coloured and the black mid-temporal stripe continues uninterrupted over the upper and mid flank (Figure 3 in Tilbury & Tolley 2009). |
| Comment | This chameleon was initially considered to represent a further population of the polymorphic B. transvaalense Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | named after the type locality. |
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