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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesChamaeleo gracilis gracilis HALLOWELL 1844
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei SCHMIDT 1919 
Common NamesE: Graceful Chameleon, Slender chameleon
G: Fersenspornchamäleon, Zierliches Chamäleon 
SynonymChamaeleo gracilis HALLOWELL 1844: 111
Chamaeleo burchelli HALLOWELL 1842: 324
Chamaeleo granulosus HALLOWELL 1856: 147
Chamaeleon gracilis — GRAY 1865: 347
Chamaeleon granulosus — GRAY 1865: 347
Chamaeleon burchelli — GRAY 1865: 348
Chamaeleo simoni BOETTGER 1885
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) gracilis — NECAS 1999: 134
Chamaeleo gracilis — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009
Chamaeleo gracilis — TILBURY 2010: 503
Chamaeleo gracilis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 260

Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) gracilis gracilis HALLOWELL 1857
Chamaeleo granulosus HALLOWELL 1857: 147 (fide BOULENGER 1887: 448)
Chamaeleo burchelli HALLOWELL 1857: 147 (?) (fide BOULENGER 1887: 448)
Chamaeleon gracilis var. ?leiocephalus GRAY 1865: 471
Chamaleo (Chamaleo) simoni BOETTGER 1885 (fide BOULENGER 1887: 448)
Chamaeleon gracilis — WERNER 1911: 12
Chamaeleon gracilis — SCHMIDT 1919: 570
Chamaeleo gracilis gracilis — LOVERIDGE 1929: 84
Chamaeleo gracilis gracilis — LOVERIDGE 1941: 118
Chamaeleo gracilis gracilis — MERTENS 1966: 16
Chamaeleo gracilis gracilis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 12

Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei SCHMIDT 1919
Chamaeleon etiennei SCHMIDT 1919: 574
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — LOVERIDGE 1929: 84
Chamaeleo etiennei — WITTE 1953: 49
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — DE WITTE 1965
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — MERTENS 1966: 17
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — KLAVER & BÖHME 1997
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) etiennei — NECAS 1999: 134
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — TILBURY 2010 (pers. comm.)
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — CERIACO et al. 2014
Chamaeleo gracilis etiennei — MARQUES et al. 2018 
DistributionCentral African Republic, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Guinea (Conakry),
Gambia (HÅKANSSON 1981), Benin, E Burkina Faso

Type locality: Liberia, West Africa

etiennei: Angola, Congo, Zaire, Gambia; Type locality: Banana, Zaire.

burchelli: see comment.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 7325
Holotype: ANSP 7322; West Africa [granulosus]
Holotype: ANSP 7329 [burchelli]
Holotype: AMNH 11370, Paratypes: 1946.8.22.31–32 (original AMNH nos. 11351 and 11361), one male and one female, [etiennei]
Syntypes: NHMUK XXV.5.e, Fantee, coll. Capt. Marryat; NHMUK 1844.2.22.87, Ashantee, Leiden Museum [leiocephalus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentChamaeleo gracilis etiennei is now considered as a valid species.

Distribution: Not in Equatorial Guinea fide SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. The type locality of C. burchelli [Fernando Po Island] is likely a mistake fide Mertens (1964). Not in Gabon fide PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “gracilis”, meaning small or lanky, or gracile. 
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