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    Species Accepted

    Rhampholeon platyceps Günther, 1893

    Malawi Stumptail Chameleon
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Rhampholeon
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Malawi Stumptail Chameleon English
      Mount Mulanje Pygmy Chameleon English

      Treatments

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      Source Dataset

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      18 results
      Loveridge, A. (1933). Reports on the scientific Results of an Expedition to the Southwestem Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. VII. Herpetology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 74: 197-415.
      Günther, A. (1893). Report on a collection of reptiles and batrachians transmitted by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C. B., from Nyassaland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1892: 555-558 [1892].
      BRANCH, WILLIAM R.; JULIAN BAYLISS & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY. (2014). Pygmy chameleons of the Rhampholeon platyceps compex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae): Description of four new species from isolated ‘sky islands’ of northern Mozambique. Zootaxa 3814 (1): 001–036.
      Schuster, & Bernhard. (2025). Erinnerungen an Malawi 1985–1992.Teil 2: Erfahrungen bei der Reptilienhaltung. Elaphe 2025 (4): 68-77.
      Klaver, C., & BÖHME, W. (1986). Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria), with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonner Zool. Monogr. 22: 1-64.
      Nečas, P., & Schmidt, W. (2004). Stump-tailed Chameleons. Miniature Dragons of the Rainforest. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 256 Pp. [Review in Elaphe 14 (1): 24].
      Loveridge, A. (1953). Herpetological results of the Berner-Carr entomological survey of the Shire Valley, Nyasaland. Quarterly J. Florida Acad. Sci. 16 (3): 139-150.
      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.
      Tilbury C R, & Emmrich D. (1996). A new dwarf forest chameleon (Squamata: Rhampholeon Gunther 1874) from Tanzania, East Africa with notes on its infrageneric and zoogeographic relationships. Tropical Zoology 9 (1): 61-71.
      Branch, B., & Ryan, P. G. (2001). Additions to the Mozambique Herpetofauna: two new lizards from the Namuli Massif. Herpetological Review 32 (4): 281-282.

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