Chamaeleo zeylanicus Laurenti, 1768

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968182

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF61-B88D-FF6B-43567D120AB8

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Chamaeleo zeylanicus Laurenti, 1768
status

 

Chamaeleo zeylanicus Laurenti, 1768 View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

Asian Chameleon

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. Native to Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka ( Glaw 2015), a specimen of C. zeylanicus stored at LKCNHM (ZRC 2.5927) was collected at Thomson Road in 1930. The specimen is most certainly a released or escaped pet as C. zeylanicus was a traded species as indicated by BMNH 1860.3.19.1034–1035.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality) : BMNH 1860.3.19.1034–1035 (no date); Thomson Road : ZRC.2.5927 (10-6-1930) .

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Genus Furcifer Fitzinger, 1843 (1 species)

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Chamaeleonidae

Genus

Chamaeleo

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