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Trioceros cristatus (STUTCHBURY, 1837)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Crested Chameleon
G: Kammchamäleon 
SynonymChamaeleon cristatus STUTCHBURY 1837: 361
? Pterosaurus cristatus — GRAY 1865: 349
Pterosaurus cristatus — MÜLLER 1881
Chamaeleon cristatus – WERNER 1911: 33
Chamaeleo cristatus – MERTENS 1966: 11
Chamaeleo (Trioceros) cristatus – KLAVER & BÖHME 1986:59
Chamaeleo (Trioceros) cristatus — NECAS 1999: 154
Trioceros cristatus — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009
Trioceros cristatus — TILBURY 2010: 579
Chamaeleo cristatus — LUTZMANN 2016 
DistributionBioko = Fernando Po, Equatorial Guinea (Mbini), Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo

Type locality: Gaboon.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, formerly BMAG (also cited as CBMAG) A715; presumed lost fide KLAVER & BOHME 1992: 446, Glaw 2015. 
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CommentThe author, Samuel Stutchbury, was a curator at the museum of the Bristol Institution for the Advancement of Science, Literature and the Arts from 1831 to 1850 (Crane 1983).

Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin crista, crest; atus/a/um, adjectival suffix: crested, referring to the dorcal and caudal crests or keels first decribed in this species (Charles Klaver, pers. comm., 11 Jan 2023). 
References
  • Barej, Michael F.; Ivan Ineich, Václav Gvoždík,, Nathaly Lhermitte-Vallarino, Nono Legrand Gonwouo, Matthew LeBreton, Ursula Bott, & Andreas Schmitz 2010. Insights into chameleons of the genus Trioceros (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) in Cameroon, with the resurrection of Chamaeleon serratus Mertens, 1922. Bonn Zool. Bull. 57 (2): 211–229 - get paper here
  • Bonetti, Mathilde 2002. 100 Sauri. Mondadori (Milano), 192 pp. - get paper here
  • Buchholz, R. 1874. Bemerkungen über die im Cameroongebiet vorkommenden Arten von Chamäleonen. Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin 1874: 77-89. - get paper here
  • Carlino, P. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2015. An Updated Reptile List of Ivindo National Park, the Herpetofaunal Hotspot of Gabon. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 50(3): 25-39 - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Crane, Michael D. 1983. Samuel Stutchbury (1798-1859), Naturalist and Geologist. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Mar., 1983), pp. 189 -200 - get paper here
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Gonwouo, L.N.; LeBreton, M.; Wild, C.; Chirio, L.; Ngassam, P. & Tchamba, M.N. 2006. Geographic and ecological distribution of the endemic montane chameleons along the Cameroon maountain range. Salamandra 42 (4): 213-230 - get paper here
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  • Klaver, C. & W. Böhme 1992. The species of Chamaeleo cristatus group from Cameroon and adjacent countries, West Africa. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 43 (3): 433-476. - get paper here
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  • Pauwels OSG, Morelle S, Albert J-L, Carlino P, Rahola N, Trape J-F. 2019. New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 143–161 (e174) - get paper here
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  • SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here
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