Chamaeleo calcaricarens BÖHME, 1985

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Higher Taxa	Chamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Chamaeleo (africanus) calcaricarens BÖHME 1985 Chamaeleo calcaricarens — ZOOLOGICAL RECORD Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) calcaricarens — NECAS 1999: 110 Chamaeleo calcaricarens — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009 Chamaeleo calcaricarens — TILBURY 2010: 456 Chamaeleo calcaricarens — LIVIGNI 2013: 279
Distribution	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, N Somalia Type locality: Gewani, Ethiopian Danakil, Ethiopia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1961.1774. Paratypes: BMNH (11), ZFMK 33624, male, Ethiopia: Addis Abeba; ZFMK 19131, female, Ethopia: Arussi: Asella; ZFMK 35900-901, 2 females, Ethiopia: near Gondar, no collector, 1979.
Diagnosis
Comment	LARGEN & SPAWLS 2006 synonymized Chamaeleo calcaricarens with C. africanus.
Etymology	Named after L.: calcar, spur; carens, active present participle of carere = to lack: lacking spurs, denoting the absence of tarsal spurs in males of this species as compared with the closely related and spur-bearing males of C. africanus (Charles Klaver, pers. comm., 11 Jan 2023).
References	Böhme, W. 1985. Zoogeographical patterns of the lizard fauna of the African subsaharan savanna belt, with preliminary description of a new chameleon. In: Schuchmann, Karl-L. (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates. Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolutionary Ecology. - Museum A. Koenig (Bonn), Vol. 4: 471-478. CAMPBELL, PATRICK D; WOLFGANG DENZER 2020. Annotated catalogue of chameleon types in the collection of the Natural History Museum, UK (NHMUK) (Reptilia: Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 4742 (3): 481–500 - get paper here Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here LiVigni, F. (ed.) 2013. A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians, Volume 1. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 495 pp. - get paper here 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 - get paper here Nečas, P. 1994. Bemerkungen zur Chamäleon-Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, mit vorläufiger Beschreibung eines neuen Chamäleons aus Kenia (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Herpetozoa 7 (3/4): 95-108. - get paper here Nečas, Petr 1999. Chameleons - Nature's Hidden Jewels. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt; 348 pp.; ISBN 3-930612-04-6 (Europe)<br>ISBN 1-57524-137-4 (USA, Canada) Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here Tilbury, C. 2010. Chameleons of Africa: An Atlas, Including the Chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt M., 831 pp. Tilbury, C. R. & Tolley, Krystal A. 2009. A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2079: 57–68 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://verity.mcphu.edu/adcham/paged.asp?genus=chamaeleo http://ejour-fup.unifi.it/index.php/tropicalzoology/article/view/129 Google images

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