Trioceros

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

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

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, grey chameleon
• Trioceros conirostratus (Tilbury, 1998) – Sudanese cone-horned chameleon
• Triocerus 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, Elliot's groove-throated side-striped chameleon, montane side-striped chameleon
• Trioceros feae (Boulenger, 1906) – Bioko hornless chameleon, Fea's chameleon
• Tioceros fuellborni (Tornier, 1900) – flapjack chameleon, Ngosi Volcano chameleon, Poroto Mountain three-horned chameleon
• Trioceros goetzei (Tornier, 1899) – Goetze's chameleon, 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
• Trioceros hoehnelii (Steindachner, 1891) – helmeted chameleon, high-casqued chameleon, von Höhnel's chameleon
• Trioceros incornutus (Loveridge, 1932) – Ukinga hornless chameleon
• Trioceros ituriensis (K.P. Schmidt, 1919) – Ituri forest chameleon
• Trioceros jacksonii (Boulenger, 1896) – Jackson's chameleon
  • 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, 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, 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 three-horned chameleon
• Trioceros perreti (Klaver & Böhme, 1992) – Perret's chameleon, southern peacock chameleon
• Trioceros pfefferi (Tornier, 1900) – Pfeffer's two-horned chameleon
• 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
• Trioceros schubotzi (Sternfeld, 1912) – Mount Kenya montane dwarf chameleon, Mount Kenya side-striped chameleon, Schubotz's chameleon
• Trioceros serratus (Mertens, 1922) – central peacock chameleon
• Trioceros sternfeldi (Rand, 1963) – Tanzanian montane dwarf chameleon
• Trioceros tempeli (Tornier, 1899) – Tanzania mountain chameleon, Tempel's chameleon, tubercle-nosed chameleon
• Trioceros werneri (Tornier, 1899) – Werner's chameleon, Werner's three-horned chameleon
• Trioceros wiedersheimi (Nieden, 1910) – Mount Lefo chameleon, northern peacock chameleon, Wiedersheim's chameleon

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.

Footnotes

1. Tilbury & Tolley (2009).
2. "Trioceros ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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).

External links

• http://www.chameleoninfo.com/Species_Profiles.html