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Trioceros fuelleborni (TORNIER, 1900)

IUCN Red List - Trioceros fuelleborni - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ngosi Volcano Chameleon
G: Poroto-Dreihornchamäleon 
SynonymChamaeleon fülleborni TORNIER 1900: 614
Chamaeleo (Trioceros) fuelleborni — NECAS 1999: 281
Trioceros fuelleborni — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009
Trioceros fuelleborni — TILBURY 2010: 603
Chamaeleo fuelleborni — PYRON & BURBRINK 2013
Chamaeleo fuelleborni — LUTZMANN 2016
Trioceros fuelleborni — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 287 
DistributionTanzania (Ngosi Vulcano, Poroto Mts., Ukonde)

Type locality: Nkonde-Nike, = Konde and Nyika (tribes), also Ngosi or Poroto Mts.,Tanzania  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZSM 25/1925 (originally ZMB 15707); ZMB 15708-9, 27293 (4 specimens) fide Bauer, Böhme and Günther (2006: 275). 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Friederich Fülleborn (1866-1933), German physician who worked in Tanganyika (Tanzania) (1896-1900) and later became a Professor at Hamburg University as an expert on tropical diseases. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhle, A.; Gockel, M. & Schmidt, W. 2004. Über die Haltung und Zucht des Poroto-Dreihornchamäleons, Chamaeleo (Trioceros) fuelleborni TORNIER 1900. Sauria 26 (4): 39-45 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Lutzmann, N. 2016. Chamäleons. Immer wieder Neues. Reptilia 21 (119): 16-24
  • 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)
  • Pyron, R. Alexander; Frank T. Burbrink 2013. Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles. Ecology Letters 17 (1): 13–21 (published online 2013, in print 2014), DOI: 10.1111/ele.12168 - get paper here
  • Rogner, Manfred 2014. Chamäleons im Terrarium. Draco 15 (58): 6-22 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, W.; Tamm, K. & Wallikewitz, E. 2010. Chamäleons - Drachen unserer Zeit. Natur und Tier Verlag, 328 pp. [review in Reptilia 101: 64, 2013] - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 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
  • Tornier, G. 1900. Neue Liste der Crocodile, Schildkröten und Eidechsen Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 579-618 - get paper here
  • van Hoof, J. et al. 2006. Kameleons, een fascinerende hobby. Lacerta 64 (5-6): 1-96 - get paper here
 
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