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Rieppeleon brachyurus (GÜNTHER, 1893)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Beardless Pygmy Chameleon 
SynonymRhampholeon brachyurus GÜNTHER 1893
Brookesia ionidesi LOVERIDGE 1951: 179
Rhampholeon brevicaudatus — WERNER 1911: 46 (partim)
Rhampholeok brachyurus — MITCHELL 1950: 52 (in error)
Brookesia ionidesi LOVERIDGE 1951: 179
Brookesia brachyura — LOVERIDGE 1951: 182
Brookesia brachyura brachyura — LOVERIDGE 1953: 192
Brookesia brachyura ionidesi — LOVERIDGE 1953: 193
Brookesia brachyura ionidesi — LOVERIDGE 1955: 172
Brookesia brachyura brachyura — MERTENS 1966
Brookesia brachyura ionidesi — MERTENS 1966: 1
Rhampholeon brachyurus — NECAS 1999: 284
Rhampholeon brachyurus — SPAWLS et al. 2001
Rieppeleon brachyurus — MATTHEE et al. 2004
Rieppeleon brachyurus — LEPTIEN 2006
Rieppeleon brachyurus — TILBURY 2010: 207
Rieppeleon brachyurus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 245 
DistributionMalawi, Mozambique, SE Tanzania

Type locality: Shiré Highlands, south of Lake Nyassa, principally upon Mount Zomba and Mount Milanje, Nyassaland (= Malawi).

Terra typica (ionidesi): Kilwa, southern province, Tanganyika Territory (= Tanzania).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: NHMUK (BMNH) 1946.8.21.70–71, two young females (Previously NHMUK1892.12.31.22–23), coll. A. Whyte; other specimens: NMW [brachyurus]
Holotype: MCZ 51301, gravid female; Paratypes: NHMUK 1950.1.5.76–80, females, coll. C. J. P. Ionides [ionidesi] 
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CommentMax total length 54 mm.

Synonymy: partly after BROADLEY in TILBURY 1992: 7, and BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 14. 
Etymologybrachy (greek) = short, ur (greek) = tail (note that the meanins is the same as in brevicaudatus [LAtin] but in Greek). 
References
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • 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
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1893. Report on a collection of reptiles and batrachians transmitted by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C. B., from Nyassaland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1892: 555-558 [1892] - get paper here
  • Klaver, Ch. 1979. A review of Brookesia systematics with special reference to lung-morphology (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 30 (1-2): 162-175 - get paper here
  • Leptien, R. 2006. Mimese und Abwehrverhalten bei Stummelschwanzchamäleons. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (60): 5-6 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1951. On reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory collected by C.J.P. Ionides. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 106 (4): 175- 204. - 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
  • Loveridge, A. 1955. On a second collection of reptiles and amphibians taken in Tanganyika Territory by C. J. P. lonides,. Journ. E. Africa Nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 169-198
  • Mariaux, Jean and Colin R. Tilbury. 2006. The pygmy chameleons of the eastern Arc range (Tanzania): Evolutionary relationships and the description of three new species of Rhampholeon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). The Herpetological Journal 16 (3): 315-331 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Mertens, Robert 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich 83: 1-37
  • Miguel, A. R., Kaiser, H., Vargas, N. D., & Borges-Martins, M. 2024. Diversity and natural history of reptiles from coastal environments in Gilé National Park, northern Mozambique. Herpetology Notes, 17, 173-199
  • Mitchell, B.L. 1950. Some reptiles and amphibians of Nyasaland. The Nyasaland Journal 3 (2): 46-57 - 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
  • 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. 1992. A new dwarf forest chameleon (Sauria: Rhampholeon Gunther 1874) from Malawi, central Africa. Tropical Zoology 5: 1-9. - get paper here
 
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