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Family Chamaeleonidae Gray, 1825 
Genus Chamaeleo Laurenti, 1768 
Chamaeleo anchietae Bocage, 1872 Anchieta’s Chameleon 
Chamaeleon Anchietae Bocage 1872:72, fig. p. 72. Syntypes: MBL (originally 5 specimens) catalogue num¬ 
bers unknown (collector J.A. d’Anchieta), destroyed by fire 18 March 1978; Bauer et al. (2006:270) iden¬ 
tified ZMB 7756 as a surviving syntype, exchanged from Bocage to Wilhelm Peters. Type locality: “Huil- 
la, dans finterieur de Mossamedes” (Bocage 1872:72), [= Huila], Huila Province, Angola. 
Chamaeleo anehietae: Boulenger (1887:452), Tilbury and Tolley (2009:63). 
Chamaeleon Anehietae: Bocage (1895a:62, 1897a:198), 
Chamaeleon anehietae: Loveridge (1933:333), Frade (1963:252). 
Chamaeleo senegalensis anehietae: Loveridge (1957:198). 
Chamaeleo anehietae: Broadley and Cotterill (2004:40), Bauer et al. (2006:270), Tilbury (2010:447), Ceria- 
co et al. (2016a:58). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Least Concern. 
Global distribution: The species occurs 
from the interior plateaus to montane grass¬ 
lands in southwestern Angola through the for¬ 
mer Katanga Province of the Democratic 
Republic of Congo and the Albertine Rift to 
southwestern Tanzania and Namibe. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 240): The 
species is known from southwestern Angola. 
Huila: “Lobango” [-14.91667, 13.50000] 
(Bocage 1895a:62, 1897a:198); “Huilla” 
[-15.05000, 13.55000] (Bocage 1872:72, 
1895a:62, 1897a:198; Loveridge 1933:333, 
1957:198; Bauer et al. 2006:270). Namibe: 
“Namibe” (Tilbury 2010:451; Ceriaco et al. 
2016a:58). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: 
Based on Bocage’s (1872) somewhat ambigu¬ 
ous locality Boulenger (1887) wrongly consid¬ 
ered the terra typica to be “Mossamedes, 
South-west Africa.” Bocage (1895a) restated the locality simply as “Huilla”. 
Map 240. 
Angola. 
Distribution of Chamaeleo anchietae in 
Chamaeleo dilepis quilensis Bocage, 1886 Quito Flap-Neck Chameleon 
Chamaeleon Dilepis Leach 1819:493. Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.13.75 (formerly BMNH 25.5a) (presented by 
T.E. Bowditch). Type locality: Not stated. “French Congo [= CongoY fide Klaver and Bohme (1987). 
Chamaeleo Capellii (Bocage 1866a:42, 1866c:59). Holotype: MBL specimen number u nk nown (collector 
A. Capello), destroyed by fire 18 March 1978. Type locality: “Benguela,” Benguela Province, Angola. 
Chamaeleo dilepis var. quilensis Bocage 1866c:59. Holotype: MBL specimen number unknown (collector 
J.A. d’Anchieta), destroyed by fire 18 March 1978. Type locality: “Rio Quilo,” Angola. 
Chamaeleon dilepis: Bocage (1866a:42, 1866c:59, 1867b:219, 1870:68, 1895a:59, 1896a:112), Peters 
(1887:612), Boulenger (1887:450, 1905:112), Monard (1937b:99), Themido (1941:8). 
Chamaeleo dilepis: Bocage (1879c:88, 1887a: 178, 1887b:202, 1887c:209). 
Chamaeleon parvilobus: Boulenger (1887:449). 
Chamaeleon quilensis: Bocage (1895a:60, 1897a: 198). 
Chamaeleon quilensis: Boulenger (1905:112), Monard (1937b:99). 
