- Rosette-Nosed Chameleon
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Rhampholeon Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Chamaeleonidae Genus: Rhampholeon Species: R. spinosus Binomial name Rhampholeon spinosus
(Matschie, 1892)The Rosette-Nosed Chameleon (Rhampholeon spinosus) is a small East African species, found in virgin forest and woodland of both the eastern and western Usambara Mountains. It is predominantly ash-grey in colouration, with a distinctive rosette-like nasal appendage.
This species has, in the past, caused much taxonomic controversy—and has been reclassified from Chamaeleo spinosum, to Bradypodion spinosum, to the current Rhampholeon spinosus.
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