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    Species Accepted

    Chamaeleo monachus Gray, 1865

    Monarch Chameleon
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Chamaeleo
    IUCNNear Threatened

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Camaleonte di Socotra Italian
      Camaleón monje Spanish
      Caméléon-moine French
      Monarch Chameleon English
      Monk Chameleon English
      Socotra Chameleon English
      Socotra-kamæleon Danish
      Socotran Chameleon English
      Sokotra Bukalemunu Turkish
      Sokotra-Chamäleon German

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      Gray, J. E. (1865). Revision of the genera and species of Chamaeleonidae, with the description of some new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 465-479.
      CAMPBELL, P. D., & WOLFGANG DENZER. (2020). Annotated catalogue of chameleon types in the collection of the Natural History Museum, UK (NHMUK) (Reptilia: Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 4742 (3): 481–500.
      Macey, J. Robert; Jennifer V. Kuehl, Allan Larson, Michael D. Robinson, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Natalia B. Ananjeva, Hafizur Rahman, Hamid Iqbal Javed, Ridwan Mohamed Osman, Ali Doumma, Theodore J. Papenfuss. (2008). Socotra Island the forgotten fragment of Gondwana: Unmasking chameleon lizard history with complete mitochondrial genomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (3): 1015-1018.
      Glaw, F. (2015). Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue]. Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246.
      Tilbury, C. R. & Tolley, Krystal A. (2009). A re-appraisal of the systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 2079: 57–68.
      FA Bisby, YR Roskov, MA Ruggiero, TM Orrell, LE Paglinawan, PW Brewer, N Bailly, J van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
      Razzetti, Edoardo; ROBERTO SINDACO, CRISTINA GRIECO, FRANCESCA PELLA, UGO ZILIANI, FABIO PUPIN, ELISA RISERVATO, DANIELE PELLITTERI-ROSA, LUCA BUTIKOFER, AHMED SAEED SULEIMAN, BADAR AWADH AL-ASEILY, CATERINA CARUGATI, ELEONORA BONCOMPAGNI & MAURO FASOLA. (2011). Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826: 1–44.
      Böhme, W., & Das, I. (2001). An overlooked but invalid senior synonym of chamaeleo monachus GRAY 1865 (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 50 (1-2): 31-34.
      Tilbury, C. (2010). Chameleons of Africa: An Atlas, Including the Chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt M., 831 Pp.
      Blyth, E. (1854). Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853]: 639-655.

      Citation

      Chamaeleo monachus Gray, 1865 in undefined