A New Montane Chameleon Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

11.03.2021

A new montane chameleon from the Bale Mts., Ethiopia, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei has been described today...

From 1992, when I first visited Ethiopia, I started to collect the evidence that Trioceros affinis is a polytypic species, with several described forms. This paper defines the southeasternmost isolated population as an independent species and together with my dear colleagues, we start deciphering the mystery of the structure of the T. affinis complex and demonstrate the Ethiopian Mountain Chameleon diversity... 

https://zse.pensoft.net/article/57297/ 

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/spiny-new-chameleon-species-described-from-bale-mountains-of-ethiopia/

Author: Petr Nečas
My projects:   ARCHAIUS   │   CHAMELEONS.INFO