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Trioceros oweni (GRAY, 1831)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Owen's Chameleon 
SynonymChamaeleo oweni GRAY 1831: 7
Chamaelon owenii – GRAY 1831: 54
Chamaeleo tricornis DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 227
Chamaeleo bibroni MARTIN 1838: 65
Chamaeleo grayii — SWAINSSON 1839 (nom. subst. pro Chamaeleo oweni)
Triceras owenii — GRAY 1865: 352
Chamaeleo unicornis MOCQUARD 1906: 464
Chamaeleo oweni ssp. cristata STERNFELD 1912 (non Chamaeleo cristatus STUCHBURY 1837)
Chamaeleo michelli MÜLLER 1913
Chamaeleon owenii — SCHMIDT 1919: 583
Chamaeleon mitchelli SCHMIDT 1919: 584 (ex errore)
Chamaeleo unicornis – DE WITTE 1953: 64
Chamaeleo unicornis — LAURENT 1958: 117
Chamaeleo oweni oweni – HILLENIUS 1959: 54
Chamaeleo oweni unicornis – HILLENIUS 1959: 54
Chamaeleo (Trioceros) oweni – KLAVER & BÖHME 1986: 59
Chamaeleo (Trioceros) oweni — NECAS 1999: 180
Trioceros oweni — TILBURY & TOLLEY 2009
Trioceros oweni — TILBURY 2010: 700
Trioceros oweni — CAMPBELL & DENZER 2020 
DistributionEquatorial Guinea (Bioko = Fernando Po, Mbini), Angola, Cameroon, W/C/N Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Gabon, Nigeria, Central African Republic

Type locality: Bioko, Äquatorial-Guinea.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.21.48-49 (2 specimens).
Holotype: NHMUK 1946.8.21.66 (Previously NHMUK XXIV.17.c), female, pres. J. E. Gray (don. Knapp, see Martin p. 64) [bibroni]
Holotype: MNHN-RA 1906.0173 [unicornis] 
Diagnosis 
CommentType species: Chamaeleo oweni GRAY 1831 is the type species of the genus Trioceros SWAINSON 1839. TILBURY & TOLLEY elevated Trioceros from subgenus to genus level and redefined the genus (see below).

Synonymy: Other generic synonyms include Pterosaurus Gray 1865; type species Chameleon cristatus Stutchbury 1837. Ensirostris Gray 1865; type species Ensirostris melleri Gray 1865.

Key: a key to the 5 species of Trioceros of Ethiopia is provided in Koppetsch et al. 2021.

Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Vice Admiral William Fitz-William Owen (1774-1857), who was born and died in Canada.

The genus was named after tri = three, and Greek “keros” = horn, after the 3 horns in this genus (at least in males). 
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