Trioceros fuelleborni

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tolley, K. |author-link=species:Krystal A. Tolley |author2=Menegon, M. |author2-link=species:Michele Menegon |date=2020 |title=Trioceros fuelleborni |volume=2020 |page=e.T172557A177251016 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T172557A177251016.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Trioceros

| species = fuelleborni

| authority = (Tornier, 1900)

| synonyms = *Chamaeleon fülleborni
{{small|Tornier, 1900}}

Chamaeleo (Trioceros) fuelleborni
{{small|— Nečas, 1999}}
Trioceros fuelleborni
{{small|— Tilbury & Tolley, 2009}}

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Trioceros fuelleborni, also known commonly as the flapjack chameleon, the Ngosi Volcano chameleon, and the Poroto three-horned chameleon, is a species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.{{Cite news|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Trioceros&species=fuelleborni|title=Trioceros fuelleborni |work=The Reptile Database|access-date=2017-09-02}}

Etymology

The specific name, fuelleborni, is in honor of Prussian-born physician Friedrich Fülleborn, who worked in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) from 1896 to 1900.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael, Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Flapjack Chameleon Chamaeleo fuelleborni ", p. 95).

Geographic range

T. fuelleborni is found in southwestern Tanzania in the Poroto Mountains and on volcanoes of the Rungwe Volcanic Province.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of T. fuelleborni is forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|2,200|–|2,500|m|ft}}, but it has also been found in trees and bushes in suburban areas near forest.

Reproduction

T. fuelleborni is ovoviviparous.

Trioceros fuelleborni

Etymology

Geographic range

Habitat

Reproduction

References

Further reading