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Trioceros hoehnelii (High-casqued Chameleon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Trioceros hoehnelli, commonly known as von Höhnel's chameleon, and the helmeted or high-casqued chameleon, is a species of chameleon found in eastern Africa, in Kenya and Uganda.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  16 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal
Litter Size [2]  12
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East African montane forests Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East African montane moorlands Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mount Kenya Biosphere Reserve II 146694 Kenya

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe Yes

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External References

Citations

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♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0