Trioceros goetzei (TORNIER, 1899)

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Higher Taxa	Chamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Trioceros goetzei goetzei (TORNIER 1899) Trioceros goetzei nyikae (LOVERIDGE 1953)
Common Names	E: Ilolo Chameleon
Synonym	Chamaeleon goetzei TORNIER 1899: 413 Chamaeleo (Trioceros) goetzei — NECAS 1999: 281 Trioceros goetzei — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009 Trioceros goetzei — TILBURY 2010: 608 Trioceros goetzei — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 287 Trioceros goetzei nyikae (LOVERIDGE 1953) Chamaeleo goetzei nyikae LOVERIDGE 1953 Chamaeleo goetzei nyikae — MERTENS 1966 Chamaeleo (Trioceros) goetzei nyikae — KLAVER & BÖHME 1997: 40 Trioceros goetzei nyikae — GLAW 2015
Distribution	Tanzania (Uzungwe Mts., Poroto Mts., Rungwe Mts., Ubena Mts., Ukinga Mts., Uzungwe Mts.), Malawi (Nyika Plateau ) Type locality: Uhehe, Tanzania. nyikae: Malawi (Nyika Plateau); Terra typica: Nyika Plateau, dIrectly above Nchenachena (apprax, 7500 ft. elevation), Nyassaland (= Malawi).
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: ZMB 14972. Holotype: MCZ 50554 [nyikae]
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Etymology	Named after Walther Goetze (1872-ca. 1900), a German botanist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Hughes, DF, Blackburn, DG. 2019. Evolutionary origins of viviparity in Chamaeleonidae. J Zool Syst Evol Res. 58 (1): 284-302 [2020] - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1953. Herpetological results of the Berner-Carr entomological survey of the Shire Valley, Nyasaland. Quarterly J. Florida Acad. Sci. 16 (3): 139-150. - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - get paper here Necas, 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) Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - 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. 1899. Neues über Chamaeleons. Zool. Anz. 22: 408-414. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://verity.mcphu.edu/adcham/paged.asp?genus=chamaeleo http://www.wildherps.com/species/C.acutus.html http://www.chameleontradehouse.nl/en/ct-goetz-en.html Google images

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