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Trioceros wolfgangboehmei KOPPETSCH, NEČAS & WIPFLER, 2021

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymTrioceros wolfgangboehmei KOPPETSCH, NEČAS & WIPFLER 2021
Trioceros affinis RÜPPELL,1845 
DistributionEthiopia (Bale mountains)

Type locality: Dinsho (3,130 m a.s.l. / 7°06'10"N, 39°47'25"E), Bale Mountains, Ethiopia  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZFMK 84811, adult male, collected by Petr Nečas on the 6. August, 2004
Paratypes: ZFMK 84812, adult female, with the same locality and collecting data as the holotype; ZFMK 84813, adult female, Goba (2,740 m a.s.l. / 7°00'36"N, 39°57'28"E), Bale Mountains, Ethiopia collected by Petr Nečas on the 7. August, 2004; ZFMK 63063, adult female, 10 km from Goba (2700 m a.s.l.), Bale Mountains, Ethiopia collected by Colin Tilbury in October 1996. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Trioceros wolfgangboehmei sp. nov. is a small-sized chameleon of the Trioceros affinis species complex (sensu Ceccarelli et al. 2014). It can be distinguished from all other members of the same species complex by the following combination of characters: (1) presence of a prominent and well-developed dorsal crest consisting of a relatively low number of significantly pointed and enlarged conical scales, forming a single row and reaching along the anterior half the tail; (2) top of the casque posteriorly raised above the dorsal crest; (3) heterogeneous body scalation with both small scattered standard scales and enlarged flattened platelike scales; (4) long canthus parietalis formed by 9–12 slightly enlarged scales; (5) rugose head scalation consisting of enlarged scales forming the cranial crests that fill the area between the lateral and temporal crest and the posterior rim of the orbit; (6) relatively high number of flank scales at midbody (53–59); (7) relatively short snout-vent length (up to 66 mm); (8) a unique hemipenial morphology including shallow calyces with smooth margins on the truncus, four pairs of thick, pointed and thorn-like papillae and two pairs of non-serrated rotulae (Koppetsch et al. 2021).


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CommentGroup: Trioceros affinis complex.

Distribution: see map in Koppetsch et al. 2021: 169 (Fig. 3). 
EtymologyThe specific epithet honours Wolfgang Böhme, senior herpetologist at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, Germany, for his numerous contributions to research on chameleons, for his outstanding and ongoing herpetological research in general, and, last but not least, for his continuously generous support of the first as well as second author and numerous junior zoologists. The species epithet is a noun in the genitive case. 
References
  • Ceccarelli, F. Sara et al. 2014. Evolutionary relationships, species delimitation and biogeography of Eastern Afromontane horned chameleons (Chamaeleonidae: Trioceros). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
  • Koppetsch, T., Nečas, P., & Wipfler, B. 2021. A new chameleon of the Trioceros affinis species complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) from Ethiopia. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 97: 161 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
 
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