Furcifer nicosiai
First description: Jesu, Mattioli & Schimmenti, 1999 Origin of the species name: The three Italian biologists Riccardo Jesu, Fabio Mattioli, and Giovanni Schimmenti from the Aquarium Genoa (Italy) dedicated the species to Guido Nicosia,...
Furcifer oustaleti
First description: (Mocquard, 1894) Origin of the species name: The zoologist François Mocquard of the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) received chameleons in the 1890s from M. Catat, the entomologist Charles Alluaud and...
Furcifer pardalis
First description: (Cuvier, 1829) Origin of the species name: The French zoologist and paleontologist Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron Cuvier founded the largest anatomical collection in Europe at the University of Paris (France)....
Furcifer petteri
First description: (Brygoo & Domergue, 1966) Origin of the species name: In 1966 the zoologists Édouard-Raoul Brygoo and Charles Antoine Domergue from the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) received several reptiles. They had...
Furcifer rhinoceratus
First description: (Gray, 1845) Origin of the species name: The English zoologist John Edward Gray described the species very briefly and named it after the Latin rhinoceros. By this, he meant the different pronounced...
Furcifer timoni
First description: Glaw, Köhler & Vences 2009 Origin of the species name: The German herpetologist Frank Glaw dedicated this species to his son Timon. Frank Glaw works in the State Zoological Collection in Munich...
Furcifer verrucosus
First description: (Cuvier, 1829) Origin of the species name: The French zoologist and palaeontologist Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron Cuvier founded the largest anatomical collection in Europe at the University of Paris (France)....
Calumma jejy
First description: Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 2006 Origin of the species name: Christopher J. Raxworthy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA) and Ronald A. Nussbaum of the University of Michigan, Ann...
Calumma juliae
First description: Prötzel, Vences, Hawlitschek, Scherz, Ratsoavina & Glaw, 2018 Origin of the species name: David Prötzel from the State Zoological Collection Munich (Germany) dedicated the species to his girlfriend Julia Forster. Distribution:...
Calumma linotum
First description: (Müller, 1924) Origin of the species name: The German herpetologist Lorenz Müller, then curator of the herpetological department of the State Zoological Collection of Munich (Germany), described this chameleon species in 1924....
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