Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Chamaeleonidae > Trioceros

Trioceros cristatus(Stutchbury, 1837)

From CAS Herpetology (HERP)

Continent	Africa
Country	Cameroon
State/Province	Sud Region
Locality	Nyabessan, 157 Km Sw Ebolowa
Latitude	2.4086666667
Longitude	10.4058333333

Institution Code	Cas
Collection Code	Herp
Catalog Number	153716
Collected By	T. Papenfuss
Date Collected	1981-04-19

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The electronic catalog of the herpetology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Contacts

Name	Lauren Scheinberg
Role	Collections Manager, Herpetology
Email	lscheinberg@calacademy.org

Name	Jon Fong
Role	Programmer
Email	jfong@calacademy.org

Name	Lauren Scheinberg
Role	Collections Manager, Herpetology
Email	lscheinberg@calacademy.org

Citation

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