Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... species average 180 to 350 mm when fully matured ( males usually smaller ) , with extremes of two Madagascan species : Chamaeleo oustaleti of nearly a metre , and Brookesia minima at 33 mm . Chamaeleon taxonomy is confusing and best ...
... species average 180 to 350 mm when fully matured ( males usually smaller ) , with extremes of two Madagascan species : Chamaeleo oustaleti of nearly a metre , and Brookesia minima at 33 mm . Chamaeleon taxonomy is confusing and best ...
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... species , and showed that East Africa has the greatest number of characters , and , hence , is the origin of Chamaeleo , with secondary centres in Madagascar and West Africa . Away from East Africa the number of shared characters ...
... species , and showed that East Africa has the greatest number of characters , and , hence , is the origin of Chamaeleo , with secondary centres in Madagascar and West Africa . Away from East Africa the number of shared characters ...
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... species seems valid . Basiliscus and some Sceloporus are also forms of somewhat similar habitat and habits as Chamaeleo pumilus . Body temperature data of four Chamaeleo dilepis were recorded in the field at Windhoek , South West Africa ...
... species seems valid . Basiliscus and some Sceloporus are also forms of somewhat similar habitat and habits as Chamaeleo pumilus . Body temperature data of four Chamaeleo dilepis were recorded in the field at Windhoek , South West Africa ...
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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