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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. 
Diagnosis 
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 L.: 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
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