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TABLE 5 in Taxonomy of the Rhampholeon boulengeri Complex (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae): Five New Species from Central Africa's Albertine Rift

Authors/Creators

  • 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, D 48161 Münster, Germany.
  • 7. Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X 1, 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.

Description

TABLE 5. Meristic and mensural characters in type specimens of Rhampholeon plumptrei sp. nov. Linear measurements (in mm) and scale counts are given. See Materials and Methods for explanation of character abbreviations.

UTEPUTEPUTEPUTEPUTEPUTEPUTEPUTEP
22668226692266721685227572275822666*21386**
FemaleFemaleMaleMaleMaleMaleJuvenileFemale
HolotypeParatopotypeParatypeParatypeParatypeParatypeParatypeParatype
SVL49.2246.2331.5333.7227.7129.7522.1948
TL12.4610.9510.3110.519.839.415.8213
TaL61.6857.1841.8444.2337.5439.1628.0161
HL14.6913.6810.6711.9410.5610.61--
HW8.327.665.956.735.775.57--
HH7.947.495.776.965.966.32--
ML9.978.256.257.96.946.39--
CE7.296.675.245.685.365.13--
SL4.925.083.854.013.643.37--
ED4.443.73.33.533.082.7--
CC5.875.993.924.974.924.83--
IL28.8126.5916.2817.3911.6314.42--
FLL9.669.036.287.596.816.66--
HLL8.798.455.816.796.065.65--
UL989690928884--
LL908892948892--
RP1.631.771.151.141.141.24--
TL/SVL0.2530.2370.3270.3120.3550.3160.2620.271

*Specimen was a recently hatched juvenile. **Specimen measured using a standard ruler because it was used in the neuroanatomical study of Hughes et al. (2016).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 472 in Zootaxa 5458 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11547851

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Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.11983357 (DOI)
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References

  • Hughes, D. F., Walker, E. M., Gignac, P. M., Martinez, A., Negishi, K., Lieb, C. S., Greenbaum, E. & Khan, A. M. (2016) Rescuing perishable neuroanatomical information from a threatened biodiversity hotspot: remote field methods for brain tissue preservation validated by cytoarchitectonic analysis, immunohistochemistry, and x-ray microcomputed tomography. PLoS ONE, 11 (5), e 0155824. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0155824