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[ Bradypodion adolfifriderici ] [ Bradypodion caffrum ] [ Bradypodion carpenteri ] [ Bradypodion damaranum ]
 [ Bradypodion dracomontanum ] [ Bradypodion excubitor ] [ Bradypodion fischeri ] [ Bradypodion fischeri fischeri ]
[ Bradypodion fischeri multituberculatum ] [ Bradypodion fischeri uluguruensis ] [ Bradypodion gutterale ]
[ Bradypodion karrooicum ] [ Bradypodion melanocephalum ] [ Bradypodion mlanjense ]
[ Bradypodion nemorale ] [ Bradypodion occidentale ] [ Bradypodion oxyrhinum ] [ Bradypodion pumilum ]
 [ Bradypodion setaroi ] [ Bradypodion spinosum ] [ Bradypodion taeniabronchum ] [ Bradypodion tavetanum ]
[ Bradypodion tenue ] [ Bradypodion thamnobates ] [ Bradypodion transvaalense ]
[ Bradypodion uthmoelleri ] [ Bradypodion ventrale ] [ Bradypodion xenorhinum ]

Bradypodion carpenteri

KINGDOM: Animalia (animals)

   PHYLUM: Cordata (chordates)

      CLASS: Reptilia (reptiles)

          ORDER: Squamata (scaled reptiles)

              FAMILIES: snakes, warm lizards, lizards

                    LIZARD SUBFAMILY: Sauria

                        SAURIA INFRAORDER: 

                         Anguimorpha (angid); Gekkota (gecko); Iguania (iguana); Scincomorpha (skink)

                                 IGUANIA DIVISIONS: 

                                 Agamids; Iguanids; Chameleonids

                                       CHAMAELEONIDAE FAMILY:

                                            Subfamily Chamaeleoninae (True Chameleons)

                                                  Genus Bradypodion ("slow-footed")


Bradypodion carpenteri

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Distribution:

Ruwenzori Mtns., 

W. Uganda, E. Zaire

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Common Name none
Name Translation of carpenter
Synonyms Chamaeleo carpenteri
Discovered Parker, 1929
Size small  30 cm or 12 inches
Sexual Dimorphism The canthi rostrales become pointed bifurcated appendices on males.
Parity oviparous 
Description These have giant casques and curved parietal crests. The canthi rostrales become pointed bifurcated appendices on males. This  species has heterogeneous squamation
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literature cited (1,2,5,6,7,8,9,17, 18)

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