Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... Chamaeleo , with secondary centres in Madagascar and West Africa . Away from East Africa the number of shared ... namaquensis . Fortunately , C. namaquensis is harder to find than other chamaeleons , thus largely escaping the taxonomic ...
... Chamaeleo , with secondary centres in Madagascar and West Africa . Away from East Africa the number of shared ... namaquensis . Fortunately , C. namaquensis is harder to find than other chamaeleons , thus largely escaping the taxonomic ...
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... Chamaeleo namaquensis . No information is available on the reptiles that directly compete with C. namaquensis , but the larger species of the lacertid genus Meroles do eat mainly tenebrionid beetles , which also form the bulk of the ...
... Chamaeleo namaquensis . No information is available on the reptiles that directly compete with C. namaquensis , but the larger species of the lacertid genus Meroles do eat mainly tenebrionid beetles , which also form the bulk of the ...
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... Chamaeleo namaquensis . Like the chamaeleonid , there is a difference in the eccritic thermal preferenda of the coastal and inland populations of this diurnal gekkonid ( Table 6 ) . Rhoptropus only emerges when it can maintain a minimum ...
... Chamaeleo namaquensis . Like the chamaeleonid , there is a difference in the eccritic thermal preferenda of the coastal and inland populations of this diurnal gekkonid ( Table 6 ) . Rhoptropus only emerges when it can maintain a minimum ...
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active adults agamid air sacs Amphibolurus animals Anolis basiliscus behaviour bitaeniatus body compression body temperatures body weight Bourgat Burrage Bustard captivity Chamaeleo namaquensis Chamaeleo pardalis Chamaeleo pumilus chamaeleons clutches coastal colour change colour index colour lability cooling corpora lutea dark Dawson density dermal deserticulous dilepis Dipsosaurus dorsalis dune sand environmental temperatures ERSITY fat bodies February female Chamaeleo field FitzSimons 1943 Gobabeb gravel habitat haematocrit heat hohnelii hummocks iguana iguanid incubation inland June juveniles Kuiseb litter lizards lungs males Mayhew Microsaura Namib Desert observed ovarian oviducal eggs oviposition ovulated oxygen consumption parentheses pattern population prey quensis Range Mean recorded rehydrated reproductive reptiles Rhoptropus SAN DIEGO saurians Sceloporus Schmidt-Nielsen season skin species sperm Stellenbosch substrate Swakop River Table tail teeth tenebrionids territories thermal thermoregulation thermoregulatory UNIV Uta stansburiana Uta stansburiana hesperis vegetation viviparous Walvis Bay warming water loss wind young Zoond