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Chamaeleo africanus LAURENTI, 1768

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: African Chameleon
G: Basilisken-Chamäleon, Afrikanisches Chamäleon 
SynonymChamaeleo africanus LAURENTI 1768: 46
Chamaeleo candidus LAURENTI 1768 (?)
Chamaeleo mexicanus LAURENTI 1768 (?)
Chamaeleo aegyptius BONNATERRE 1789
Chamaeleon africanus — MEYER 1795: 27
Chamaeleo calcaratus MERREM 1820: 162
Chamaeleon basiliscus COPE 1868
Chamaeleon basiliscus — BOULENGER 1897: 132
Chamaeleon basiliscus — WERNER 1911: 11
Chamaeleon basilicus — STERNFELD 1917: 409 (in error)
Chamaeleon basilicus — CALABRESI 1925: 103
Chamaeleon basiliscus — LOVERIDGE 1936: 75
Chamaeleo africanus — MERTENS 1966: 17
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — KLAVER & BÖHME 1986: 59
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — KLAVER & BÖHME 1997
Chamaeleo (Chamaeleo) africanus — NECAS 1999: 110
Chamaeleo africanus — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009
Chamaeleo africanus — TILBURY 2010: 440
Chamaeleo africanus — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020 
DistributionMauritania, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Greece

Type locality (restricted): Africa (fide MERTENS 1966: 6)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: ZFMK 70660; original type based on SEBA (1734) I, plate 43, fig. 4 (43 is a misprint for 83).
Holotype: MCZ 5766 [basiliscus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Not in Gabon fide PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008. Not in Ethiopia or Eritrea; Figure 171 in Largen & Spawls 2010 is C. calcaricarens (not C. africanus as indicated, fide Wagner 2011, Salamandra 47: 61). 
EtymologyNamed after its African origin. 
References
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