Owen's Three-horned Chameleon
Trioceros oweni
Classification
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Chamaeleonidae
Trioceros oweni est une espèce de sauriens de la famille des Chamaeleonidae. Répartition Cette espèce se rencontre au Nigeria, au Cameroun, en Centrafrique, en Guinée équatoriale, au Gabon, au Congo-Kinshasa et en Angola. Étymologie Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de William Fitzwilliam Owen.
Owen's chameleon (Trioceros oweni), also commonly known as Owen's three-horned chameleon, is a species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to forests in central Africa. Named after British naval officer and explorer William Fitzwilliam Owen, it was first described in 1831 by the naturalist John Edward Gray, and is the type species of the genus Trioceros.
Trioceros es un género de iguanios que pertenecen a la familia de los camaleones. El género agrupa a 40 especies, nativas del este, centro y oeste de África. Taxonomía Se reconocen las siguientes especies según The Reptile Database: Trioceros affinis (Rüppel, 1845) Trioceros balebicornutus (Tilbury, 1998) Trioceros bitaeniatus (Fischer, 1884) Trioceros camerunensis (Müller, 1909) Trioceros chapini (De Witte, 1964) Trioceros conirostratus (Tilbury, 1998) Trioceros cristatus (Stutchbury, 1837) Trioceros deremensis (Matschie, 1892) Trioceros ellioti (Günther, 1895) Trioceros feae…
Distribution
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