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    Species Accepted

    Bradypodion melanocephalum (Gray, 1865)

    Black-headed Dwarf Chameleon
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Bradypodion
    IUCNNear Threatened

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Black-headed Dwarf Chameleon English
      Durban Dwarf Chameleon English
      KZN Dwarf Chameleon English
      Kwazulu Dwarf Chameleon English
      Черноголовый карликовый хамелеон Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      25 results
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      ARMSTRONG, A. J. (2010). Population estimate of Bradypodion melanocephalum at the Durban International Airport Eastern Precinct. African Herp News (52): 2-7.
      Hewitt, J. (1935). Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. 4: 283-357.
      da Silva, J. M. and Tolley, K. A. (2017). Diversification through ecological opportunity in dwarf chameleons. J. Biogeogr.. Doi:10.1111/Jbi.12966.
      Glaw, F. (2015). Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue]. Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.
      Hillenius, D. (1959). The differentiation within the genus Chamaeleo LAURENTI 1768. Beaufortia, Amsterdam, 8: 1-92.
      Schmidt, W.; Tamm, K. & Wallikewitz, E. (2010). Chamäleons - Drachen unserer Zeit. Natur Und Tier Verlag, 328 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 101: 64, 2013].
      Tolley, Krystal A.; Colin R. Tilbury, William R. Branch and Conrad A. Matthee. (2004). Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30 (2): 354-365.

      Citation

      Bradypodion melanocephalum (Gray, 1865) in undefined