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Rhampholeon (from Template:Langx Template:Transliteration, 'bird's bill' and Template:Langx Template:Transliteration, 'lion')<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is a genus of small chameleons, commonly known as pygmy chameleons or African leaf chameleons, found in East Africa and Central Africa. They are found in forests, woodlands, thickets, and savanna, and most species are restricted to highlands. They are brown, grey, or green, and typically seen at low levels in bushes, or on the ground among grasses or leaf litter.

SpeciesEdit

The following 25 species are recognized as being valid:<ref>"Rhampholeon ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Rhampholeon acuminatus Template:Small Nguru pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Rhampholeon-beraduccii-from-type-locality-in-life-Fig-7-Rhampholeon-acuminatus-from.jpg Rhampholeon beraduccii Template:Small Beraducci’s pygmy chameleon, Mahenge pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
Rhampholeon boulengeri Template:Small Boulenger's pygmy chameleon Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
Rhampholeon bruessoworum Template:Small Mount Inago pygmy chameleon Mozambique
Rhampholeon chapmanorum Template:Small Chapmans's pygmy chameleon Malawi.
File:Rhampholeon-colemani-from-type-locality-in-life 2.jpg Rhampholeon colemani Template:Small Tanzania.
Rhampholeon gorongosae Template:Small Mount Gorongosa pygmy chameleon Mozambique.
Rhampholeon hattinghi Template:Small Democratic Republic of the Congo.
File:Rhampholeon marshalli 181046589.jpg Rhampholeon marshalli Template:Small Marshall's pygmy chameleon, Marshall's leaf chameleon, Marshall's dwarf chameleon, Marshall's stumptail chameleon Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Rhampholeon maspictus Template:Small Mount Mabu pygmy chameleon Mozambique
File:Stump-tailed chameleons Rhampholeon moyeri.jpg Rhampholeon moyeri Template:Small Moyer’s pygmy chameleon, Udzungwa pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
Rhampholeon nchisiensis Template:Small South African stumptail chameleon, Nchisi pygmy chameleon Malawi and Tanzania
Rhampholeon nebulauctor Template:Small Mount Chiperone pygmy chameleon Mozambique.
File:Rhampholeon-nicolai-from-type-locality.png Rhampholeon nicolai Template:Small Nicola’s pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
Rhampholeon platyceps Template:Small Mount Mulanje pygmy chameleon, Malawi stumptail chameleon Malawi and Mozambique
File:Rhampholeon-princeeai-from-Mkingu-Nature-Reserve-in-life.png Rhampholeon princeeai Template:Small Princeeai’s pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Rhampholeon-rubeho-from-type-locality-in-life.jpg Rhampholeon rubeho Template:Small Rubeho’s pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Rhampholeon-sabini-from-type-locality-in-life 1.jpg Rhampholeon sabini Template:Small Nguu North pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Cameroon Stumptail Chameleon (Rhampholeon spectrum) (7668008064).jpg Rhampholeon spectrum Template:Small spectral pygmy chameleon, western pygmy chameleon, Cameroon stumptail chameleon Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea,Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Gabon,
File:Rosette-nosed Pygmy Chameleon imported from iNaturalist photo 103864274 on 20 April 2022.jpg Rhampholeon spinosus Template:Small rosette-nosed pygmy chameleon Tanzania
File:Rhampholeon temporalis 103864172.jpg Rhampholeon temporalis Template:Small Usambara stumptail chameleon, East Usambara pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Rhampholeon tilburyi (10.3897-zse.92.9948) Figure 4 (cropped).jpg Rhampholeon tilburyi Template:Small Mount Namuli pygmy chameleon Mozambique.
File:Rhampholeon-uluguruensis-from-type-locality-in-life.png Rhampholeon uluguruensis Template:Small Uluguru pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
Rhampholeon viridis Template:Small green pygmy chameleon Tanzania.
File:Rhampholeon-waynelotteri-from-type-locality-top-and-from-Mkingu-Nature-Reserve-bottom.png Rhampholeon waynelotteri Template:Small Tanzania.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Rhampholeon.

ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Chamæleontidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Rhampholeon, p. 475).
  • Branch WR (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Rhampholeon, p. 228).
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  • Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology: Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. (Genus Rhampholeon, p. 289).
  • Günther A (1874). "Descriptions of some new or imperfectly known Species of Reptiles from the Camaroon [sic] Mountains". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1874: 442-445. (Rhampholeon, new genus, p. 444).
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