Trioceros fuelleborni

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Trioceros fuelleborni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Trioceros
Species:
T. fuelleborni
Binomial name
Trioceros fuelleborni
(Tornier, 1900)
Synonyms [2]
  • Chamaeleon fülleborni
    Tornier, 1900
  • Chamaeleo (Trioceros) fuelleborni
    Nečas, 1999
  • Trioceros fuelleborni
    Tilbury & Tolley, 2009

Trioceros fuelleborni, also known commonly as the flapjack chameleon, the Ngosi Volcano chameleon, and the Poroto three-horned chameleon, is a species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania. [2]

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Etymology

The specific name, fuelleborni, is in honor of Prussian-born physician Friedrich Fülleborn, who worked in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) from 1896 to 1900. [3]

Reproduction

T. fuelleborni is ovoviviparous. [2]

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References

  1. Tolley, K.; Menegon, M. (2020). "Trioceros fuelleborni ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T172557A177251016. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T172557A177251016.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Trioceros fuelleborni ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael, Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Flapjack Chameleon Chamaeleo fuelleborni ", p. 95).

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