Compiled by Lynn Raw 23 July 2001, last updated 26 October 2001

Chamaeleo Laurenti, 1768 - African Chameleons Subgenus

1: Chamaeleo Laurenti, 176
africanus Laurenti, 1768
anchietae Bocage, 1872
arabicus Matschie, 1893
calcaricarens Boehme, 1985
calyptratus calyptratus Duméril & Bibron, 1851
calyptratus calcarifer Peters, 1870
chamaeleon chamaeleon Linnaeus, 1758
chamaeleon musae Steindachner, 1900
chamaeleon orientalis Parker, 1938
dilepis dilepis Leach, 1819
dilepis idjwiensis Loveridge, 1942
dilepis isabellinus Guenther, 1893
dilepis martensi Mertens, 1964
dilepis petersii Gray, 1864
dilepis roperi Boulenger, 1890
dilepis ruspolii Boettger, 1893
gracilis gracilis Hallowell, 1842
gracilis etiennei Schmidt, 1919
laevigatus Gray, 1863
monachus Gray, 1865
namaquensis Smith, 1831
quilensis Bocage, 1866
senegalensis Daudin, 1802
zeylanicus Laurenti, 1768

Subgenus
2: Trioceros Swainson, 1839
affinis Ruppell, 1845
bitaeniatus Fischer, 1884
camerunensis (Müller, 1909)
chapini (Witte, 1964)
cristatus (Stutchbury, 1837)
deremensis Matschie, 1892
eisentrauti Mertens, 1968
ellioti Günther, 1895
feae Boulenger, 1906
fuelleborni Tornier, 1900
goetzei goetzei Tornier, 1899
goetzei nyikae Loveridge, 1953
harennae Largen, 1995
hoehnelii Steindachner, 1891
incornutus Loveridge, 1932
ituriensis (Schmidt, 1919)
jacksonii jacksonii Boulenger, 1896
jacksonii merumontanus Rand, 1958
jacksonii xantholophus Eason, Ferguson & Hebrard, 1988
johnstoni (Boulenger, 1901)
kinetensis Schmidt, 1943
laterispinis Loveridge, 1932
marsabitensis Tilbury, 1991
melleri Gray, 1865
montium Buchholz, 1874
owenii (Gray, 1831)
pfefferi Tornier, 1900
quadricornis quadricornis Tornier, 1899
quadricornis gracilior Boehme & Klaver, 1981
rudis Boulenger, 1906
schoutedeni Laurent, 1952
schubotzi Sternfeld, 1912
tempeli Tornier, 1899
tremperi Necas, 1994
werneri Tornier, 1899
wiedersheimi wiedersheimi Nieden, 1910
wiedersheimi perreti Klaver & Boehme, 1992

The above list follows Klaver & Boehme, 1997 which should be consulted for the relevant synonomies.

Note: Taxonomy is not static. As new discoveries are made, new species are added or sometimes a species is found to be the same as another previously described species and is then synonymised with that species. This happened with Brookesia betsileana Ahl which was later found to be identical to Brookesia nasus nasus Boulenger. The present list may already be out of date.