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Mountain Dwarf Chameleons
Nadzikambia
Nadzikambia (derived from their name in Chichewa) is a genus of chameleons. It includes two species of small, plesiomorphic chameleons from the Ruo Gorge forest on Mount Mulanje in Malawi and Mount Mabu in Mozambique.
Initially only a single species was recognized and placed in Chamaeleo. It was for some time moved to the South African dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion) by some (Klaver & Böhme, 1986). This was criticized because plesiomorphies cannot be used to define clades, and eventually turned out to be in error. In 2006, it was moved to its own genus Nadzikambia. In 2010, the second species of Nadzikambia was described.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Mulanje Chameleon
speciesNadzikambia mlanjensis
Mount Mabu Chameleon
speciesNadzikambia baylissi
Nadzikambia goodallae
speciesNadzikambia goodallae
Nadzikambia evanescens
speciesNadzikambia evanescens
Nadzikambia nubila
speciesNadzikambia nubila
Nadzikambia franklinae
speciesNadzikambia franklinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90105.