Chamaeleo (trioceros) narraioca n. sp. (reptilia chamaeleonidae), a new chameleon species from a relict montane forest of mount kulal, northern Kenya

Abstract

A new species of chameleon—Chamaeleo (Trioceros) narraioca—is described from Kenya, East Africa. The new taxon inhabits humid montane evergreen forest on Mt Kulal in the Northern Frontier Division of Kenya, from which no representatives of this genus have been previously recorded. The new species is a further member of the Chamaeleo (Trioceros) bitaeniatus complex, but clearly distinct from its congeners by a combination of external and hemipenial morphology, coloration, biology and geographical isolation. © 2003 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.