Trioceros

Trioceros is a genus of lizards in the family Chamaeleonidae. Trioceros was considered a subgenus of the genus Chamaeleo until 2009, when it was elevated to full genus level.[1]

Trioceros
Jackson's three-horned chameleon
(Trioceros jacksonii )
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Subfamily: Chamaeleoninae
Genus: Trioceros
Swainson, 1839

Species and subspecies

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[2]

  • Trioceros affinis (Rüppell, 1845) – beardless Ethiopian mountain chameleon, Rüppell's desert chameleon
  • Trioceros balebicornutus (Tilbury, 1998) – Bale Mountain two-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros bitaeniatus (Fischer, 1884) – side-striped chameleon, two-lined chameleon, two-lined montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros camerunensis (L. Müller, 1909) – Cameroon chameleon
  • Trioceros chapini (de Witte, 1964) – Chapin's chameleon,[3] grey chameleon
  • Trioceros conirostratus (Tilbury, 1998) – Sudanese cone-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros cristatus (Stutchbury, 1837) – crested chameleon, fringed chameleon
  • Trioceros deremensis (Matschie, 1892) – Usambara giant three-horned chameleon, wavy chameleon
  • Trioceros ellioti (Günther, 1895) – Elliot's chameleon,[4] Elliot's groove-throated side-striped chameleon, montane side-striped chameleon
  • Trioceros feae (Boulenger, 1906) – Bioko hornless chameleon, Fea's chameleon
  • Trioceros fuelleborni (Tornier, 1900) – (named after Friedrich Fülleborn),[5] flapjack chameleon, Ngosi Volcano chameleon, Poroto Mountain three-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros goetzei (Tornier, 1899) – Goetze's chameleon,[6] Ilolo chameleon, whistling chameleon
    • Trioceros goetzei goetzei (Tornier, 1899) – Goetze's whistling chameleon
    • Trioceros goetzei nyikae (Loveridge, 1953) – Nyika whistling chameleon
  • Trioceros hanangensis Krause & Böhme, 2010 – Mount Hanang montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros harennae (Largen, 1995) – Harenna hornless chameleon
    • Trioceros harennae harennae (Largen, 1995) – Harenna hornless chameleon
    • Trioceros harennae fitchi (Nečas, 2004) – Fitch's Harenna hornless chameleon[7]
  • Trioceros hoehnelii (Steindachner, 1891) – helmeted chameleon, high-casqued chameleon, von Höhnel's chameleon[8]
  • Trioceros incornutus (Loveridge, 1932) – Ukinga hornless chameleon
  • Trioceros ituriensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1919) – Ituri forest chameleon
  • Trioceros jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) – Jackson's chameleon[9]
    • Trioceros jacksonii jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) – Jackson's three-horned chameleon
    • Trioceros jacksonii merumontanus (Rand, 1958) – dwarf Jackson's chameleon
    • Trioceros jacksonii xantholophus (Eason, Ferguson & Hebrard, 1988) – Mount Kenya three-horned chameleon, yellow-crested Jackson's chameleon
  • Trioceros johnstoni (Boulenger, 1901) – Johnston's chameleon,[10] Johnston's three-horned chameleon, Ruwenzori three-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros kinangopensis Stipala et al., 2012
  • Trioceros kinetensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1943) – Mount Kineti montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros laterispinis (Loveridge, 1932) – spiny-flanked chameleon
  • Trioceros marsabitensis (Tilbury, 1991) – Marsabit one-horned chameleon, Mt. Marsabit chameleon, Tilbury's cameleon
  • Trioceros melleri (Gray, 1865) – giant one-horned chameleon, Meller's chameleon,[11] Meller's giant one-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros montium (Buchholz, 1874) – Cameroon sailfin chameleon
  • Trioceros narraioca (Nečas, Modrý & Šlapeta, 2003) – Mount Kulal helmeted chameleon
  • Trioceros ntunte (Nečas, Modry & Slapeta, 2005) – Nyiru montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros nyirit Stipala et al., 2011 – Cherangani helmeted chameleon
  • Trioceros oweni (Gray, 1831) – Owen's chameleon[12]
  • Trioceros perreti (Klaver & Böhme, 1992) – Perret's chameleon,[13] southern peacock chameleon
  • Trioceros pfefferi (Tornier, 1900) – Pfeffer's two-horned chameleon[14]
  • Trioceros quadricornis (Tornier, 1899) – four-horned chameleon
    • Trioceros quadricornis quadricornis (Tornier, 1899) – southern four-horned chameleon
    • Trioceros quadricornis eisentrauti (Mertens, 1968) – Rumpi Hills chameleon
    • Trioceros quadricornis gracilior (Böhme & Klaver, 1981) – northern four-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros rudis (Boulenger, 1906) – coarse chameleon, rough chameleon, Ruwenzori side-striped chameleon, Rwenzori bearded montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros schoutedeni (Laurent, 1952) – Schouteden's montane dwarf chameleon[15]
  • Trioceros schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1912) – Mount Kenya montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Kenya side-striped chameleon, Schubotz's chameleon[16]
  • Trioceros serratus (Mertens, 1922) – central peacock chameleon
  • Trioceros sternfeldi (Rand, 1963) – (named after Richard Sternfeld),[17] Tanzanian montane dwarf chameleon
  • Trioceros tempeli (Tornier, 1899) – Tanzania mountain chameleon, Tempel's chameleon,[18] tubercle-nosed chameleon
  • Trioceros werneri (Tornier, 1899) – Werner's chameleon,[19] Werner's three-horned chameleon
  • Trioceros wiedersheimi (Nieden, 1910) – Mount Lefo chameleon, northern peacock chameleon, Wiedersheim's chameleon[20]

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trioceros.

Trioceros werneri

Footnotes
  1. Tilbury & Tolley (2009).
  2. "Trioceros ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens et al., p. 51.
  4. Beolens et al., p. 82.
  5. Beolens et al., p.95.
  6. Beolens et al., p. 103.
  7. Beolens et al., p. 90.
  8. Beolens et al., p. 124.
  9. Beolens et al., p. 132.
  10. Beolens et al., p. 135.
  11. Beolens et al., p. 175.
  12. Beolens et al., p. 198.
  13. Beolens et al., p. 203.
  14. Beolens et al., p. 205,
  15. Beolens et al., p. 237.
  16. Beolens et al., p. 238.
  17. Beolens et al., 253.
  18. Beolens et al., p. 263.
  19. Beolens et al., p. 282.
  20. Beolens et al., p. 285.

References
  • Boelens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  • Tilbury, C.R., & Tolley, K.A. (2009). A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2079: 57–68.
  • Swainson, W. (1839). The Natural History of Fishes, Amphibians, & Reptiles, or Monocardian Animals. Vol. II. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans; John Taylor. (A. Spottiswoode, printer). 452 pp. (Trioceros, new genus, p. 369).
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