A new dwarf forest chameleon (squamata: Rhampholeon Günther 1874) from Tanzania, East Africa with notes on its infrageneric and zoogeographie relationships

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-71

  Tilbury, C R ^a   Emmrich, D ^b  

^a Ernst Ludwig Heim Straße ^*  (South Africa)

^b Ernst Ludwig Heim Stra e   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chamaeleonidae; Distribution patterns; Hemipenes; New species; Reptilia; Rhampholeon; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030559990     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1996.10539303     Document Type: Article

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