Nadzikambia
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Nadzikambia (derived from their name in Chichewa) is a genus of chameleons. It includes two species of small, plesiomorphic chameleons from the Ruo Gorge forest on Mount Mulanje in Malawi and Mount Mabu in Mozambique.
Initially only a single species was recognized and placed in Chamaeleo. It was for some time moved to the South African dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion) by some (Klaver & Böhme, 1986). This was criticized because plesiomorphies cannot be used to define clades, and eventually turned out to be in error. In 2006, it was moved to its own genus Nadzikambia.[1] In 2010, the second species of Nadzikambia was described.[2]
Species
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| File:Nadzikambia baylissi (10.3897-zse.92.9948) Figure 4 (cropped).jpg | Nadzikambia baylissi Branch and Tolley, 2010Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Mount Mabu chameleon | Mount Mabu in Mozambique. |
| Nadzikambia mlanjensis (Broadley, 1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Mlanje Mountain chameleon | Mount Mulanje in Malawi. |
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References
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- ↑ Tolley, Krystal A.; Tilbury, Colin R. & Branch, William R. (2004): Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 354–365. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers". PDF fulltext Template:Webarchive
- ↑ <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Branch, W.R. & Tolley, K.A. (2010): A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Nadzikambia) from Mount Mabu, central Mozambique. Afr. J. Herpetol. 59(2): 157–172
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- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Klaver, C.J.J. & Böhme, W. (1986): Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 22: 1–64.
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Tolley, Krystal A.; Tilbury, Colin R. & Branch, William R. (2007): Corrections to species names recently placed in Kinyongia and Nadzikambia (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 1426: 68.