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Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa's Albertine Rift
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- 1. Department of Biology, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402, USA.
- 2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
- 3. Department of Environment and Social Safeguards, Uganda National Roads Authority UNRA , P.O. Box 28487, Kampala, Uganda.
- 4. Division of Biology & Conservation Ecology, School of Science & the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. & PAMS Foundation, P.O. Box 16556, Arusha, Tanzania.
- 5. Institut für Integrierte Naturwissenschaften, Abteilung Biologie, AG Zoologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Germany.
- 6. Allwetterzoo Münster, Sentruper Str 315, D48161 Münster, Germany.
- 7. Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa.
- 8. Laboratoire d'Herpétologie, Département de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, Lwiro, République Démocratique du Congo.
- 9. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA.
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Hughes, Daniel F., Behangana, Mathias, Lukwago, Wilber, Menegon, Michele, Dehling, J. Maximilian, Wagner, Philipp, Tilbury, Colin R., South, Trisan, Kusamba, Chifundera, Greenbaum, Eli (2024): Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa's Albertine Rift. Zootaxa 5458 (4): 451-494, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1
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