"The Levant is an important migration bridge, harboring border-zones between Afrotropical and palearctic species. Accordingly, Chameleo chameleon, a common species throughout the Mediterranean basin, is morphologically divided in the southern Levant (Israel) into two subspecies, Chamaeleo chamaeleon recticrista (CCR) and C. c. musae (CCM)."...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031372
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031372