Chamaeleo gracilis or dilepsis?
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@DeremensisBlue do you know?
This is absolutely a Dr. Chris Anderson question! At least we have a location so seneglaensis is not in the mix. But I tap out when it comes to IDing this corner of the Chamaeleo species!
Don’t know if this will help…
https://www.lacerta.de/AF/Bibliografie/BIB_4505.pdf
”Chamaeleo dilepis Leach Flap-necked chameleon
Range: savannah and woodland of most of south-eastern Kenya, including the coast, but
usually below altitudes of 1,500 m, thus absent from Nairobi, and not recorded from the southern rift valley. No records from northern or north-eastern Kenya, where Chamaeleo gracilis occurs. Known localities include Gede, Kitui, Kwale, Machakos, Makindu, Mombasa, Namanga, Sultan Hamud and Voi. Two records from western Kenya, Kakamega and Kisumu.
Notes: coastal Kenya specimens have relatively large ear flaps, and the status of C. quilensis (usually regarded as a subspecies of C. dilepis, with small ear flaps) needs investigating. Lanza (1990) regards C. quilensis as a full species, widely distributed in Somalia; sympatry of adult specimens of this group with large and small ear flaps has been recorded. If subspecies are valid, then most Kenyan specimens belong to the nominate subspecies C. d. dilepis.”
”Chamaeleo gracilis Hallowell Slender chameleon
Range: quite widely distributed in northern, western, eastern and central Kenya, in savannah and semi-desert, usually at altitudes below 1,500 m. Localities include Buna, Eldoret, Isiolo, Kabluk, Kakamega, Kerio Valley, Kisumu, Kora, Mandera, Maua, Moyale, Sololo and Voi, and Longido in Tanzania.
Notes: Kenyan specimens belong to the subspecies C. g. gracilis.”
https://www.lacerta.de/AF/Bibliografie/BIB_4505.pdf
”Chamaeleo dilepis Leach Flap-necked chameleon
Range: savannah and woodland of most of south-eastern Kenya, including the coast, but
usually below altitudes of 1,500 m, thus absent from Nairobi, and not recorded from the southern rift valley. No records from northern or north-eastern Kenya, where Chamaeleo gracilis occurs. Known localities include Gede, Kitui, Kwale, Machakos, Makindu, Mombasa, Namanga, Sultan Hamud and Voi. Two records from western Kenya, Kakamega and Kisumu.
Notes: coastal Kenya specimens have relatively large ear flaps, and the status of C. quilensis (usually regarded as a subspecies of C. dilepis, with small ear flaps) needs investigating. Lanza (1990) regards C. quilensis as a full species, widely distributed in Somalia; sympatry of adult specimens of this group with large and small ear flaps has been recorded. If subspecies are valid, then most Kenyan specimens belong to the nominate subspecies C. d. dilepis.”
”Chamaeleo gracilis Hallowell Slender chameleon
Range: quite widely distributed in northern, western, eastern and central Kenya, in savannah and semi-desert, usually at altitudes below 1,500 m. Localities include Buna, Eldoret, Isiolo, Kabluk, Kakamega, Kerio Valley, Kisumu, Kora, Mandera, Maua, Moyale, Sololo and Voi, and Longido in Tanzania.
Notes: Kenyan specimens belong to the subspecies C. g. gracilis.”
Vinyonga
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Nice, thanks very much for the info! Sounds likely for gracilis then, I'll put it down as that for now
https://bioone.org/journals/journal...2982/0012-8317(1997)86[61:AACOTL]2.0.CO;2.pdf
”Chamaeleo gracilis Hallowell Slender chameleon
Range: quite widely distributed in northern, western, eastern and central Kenya, in savannah and semi-desert, usually at altitudes below 1,500 m. Localities include Buna, Eldoret, Isiolo, Kabluk, Kakamega, Kerio Valley, Kisumu, Kora, Mandera, Maua, Moyale, Sololo and Voi, and Longido in Tanzania.
Notes: Kenyan specimens belong to the subspecies C. g. gracilis.”
“Chamaeleo dilepis Leach Flap-necked chameleon
Range: savannah and woodland of most of south-eastern Kenya, including the coast, but
usually below altitudes of 1,500 m, thus absent from Nairobi, and not recorded from the southern rift valley. No records from northern or north-eastern Kenya, where Chamaeleo gracilis occurs. Known localities include Gede, Kitui, Kwale, Machakos, Makindu, Mombasa, Namanga, Sultan Hamud and Voi. Two records from western Kenya, Kakamega and Kisumu.
Notes: coastal Kenya specimens have relatively large ear flaps, and the status of C. quilensis (usually regarded as a subspecies of C. dilepis, with small ear flaps) needs investigating. Lanza (1990) regards C. quilensis as a full species, widely distributed in Somalia; sympatry of adult specimens of this group with large and small ear flaps has been recorded. If subspecies are valid, then most Kenyan specimens belong to the nominate subspecies C. d. dilepis.”
”Chamaeleo gracilis Hallowell Slender chameleon
Range: quite widely distributed in northern, western, eastern and central Kenya, in savannah and semi-desert, usually at altitudes below 1,500 m. Localities include Buna, Eldoret, Isiolo, Kabluk, Kakamega, Kerio Valley, Kisumu, Kora, Mandera, Maua, Moyale, Sololo and Voi, and Longido in Tanzania.
Notes: Kenyan specimens belong to the subspecies C. g. gracilis.”
“Chamaeleo dilepis Leach Flap-necked chameleon
Range: savannah and woodland of most of south-eastern Kenya, including the coast, but
usually below altitudes of 1,500 m, thus absent from Nairobi, and not recorded from the southern rift valley. No records from northern or north-eastern Kenya, where Chamaeleo gracilis occurs. Known localities include Gede, Kitui, Kwale, Machakos, Makindu, Mombasa, Namanga, Sultan Hamud and Voi. Two records from western Kenya, Kakamega and Kisumu.
Notes: coastal Kenya specimens have relatively large ear flaps, and the status of C. quilensis (usually regarded as a subspecies of C. dilepis, with small ear flaps) needs investigating. Lanza (1990) regards C. quilensis as a full species, widely distributed in Somalia; sympatry of adult specimens of this group with large and small ear flaps has been recorded. If subspecies are valid, then most Kenyan specimens belong to the nominate subspecies C. d. dilepis.”
