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Rhampholeon chapmanorum TILBURY, 1992

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Chapmans’ Pygmy Chameleon 
SynonymRhampholeon chapmani TILBURY 1992
Rhampholeon chapmanorum — NECAS 1999: 284
Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) chapmanorum — MATTHEE et al. 2004
Rhampholeon chapmani — DUBOIS 2007 (by implication)
Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) chapmanorum — TILBURY 2010: 175
Rhampholeon (Rhinodigitum) chapmanorum — GLAW 2015
Rhampholeon chapmanorum — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 
DistributionMalawi (Natundu Hills Range)

Type locality: evergreen forest at 940 m elevation above the Chididi Police Post on the top of Malawi Hill, Natundu Hills Range, 16°55’13’’S, 33°11’50’’E.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1988.399, adult male; Paratypes: NHMUK 1988.400–405, two males and four females. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
Etymologynamed after Mr. Jim and Mrs. Betty Chapman. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • BRANCH, WILLIAM R.; JULIAN BAYLISS & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY 2014. Pygmy chameleons of the Rhampholeon platyceps compex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae): Description of four new species from isolated ‘sky islands’ of northern Mozambique. Zootaxa 3814 (1): 001–036 - get paper here
  • CAMPBELL, PATRICK D; WOLFGANG DENZER 2020. Annotated catalogue of chameleon types in the collection of the Natural History Museum, UK (NHMUK) (Reptilia: Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 4742 (3): 481–500 - get paper here
  • Dubois, A. 2007. Genitives of species and subspecies nomina derived from personal names should not be emended. Zootaxa 1550: 49–68 - get paper here
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Klaver, Ch. J.J. & Böhme,W. 1997. Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich, 112: XIV, 1-85
  • Matthee, C.; Tilbury, C.R. & Townsend, T. 2004. A phylogenetic review of the African leaf chameleons: genus Rhampholeon (Chamaeleonidae): the role of vicariance and climate change in speciation. Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) B271: 1967-1975 - get paper here
  • Menegon, M.; Salvidio, S. & Tilbury, C. 2002. A new dwarf chamaeleon from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania, East Africa (Squamata: Rhampholeon Günther 1874). Journal of Herpetology 36 (1): 51-57 - get paper here
  • Nečas, P. & Schmidt, W. 2004. Stump-tailed Chameleons. Miniature Dragons of the Rainforest. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 256 pp. [review in Elaphe 14 (1): 24]
  • Nečas, 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
  • Tilbury C R; Emmrich D 1996. A new dwarf forest chameleon (Squamata: Rhampholeon Gunther 1874) from Tanzania, East Africa with notes on its infrageneric and zoogeographic relationships. Tropical Zoology 9 (1): 61-71 - 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. 1992. A new dwarf forest chameleon ( Sauria: Rhampholeon Gunther 1874) from Malawi, central Africa. Tropical Zoology 5: 1-9. - get paper here
  • TOLLEY, KRYSTAL A.; COLIN R. TILBURY, JESSICA M. DA SILVA, GARY BROWN, YANKHO CHAPETA & CHRISTOPHER V. ANDERSON. 2021. Clinging to survival: Critically Endangered Chapman’s pygmy chameleon Rhampholeon chapmanorum persists in shrinking forest patches. Oryx 1–6. - get paper here
 
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