Common Name: Boulenger's Chameleon

Scientific Name: Rhampholeon boulengeri

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Distribution: Eastern Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Habitat: leaf litter and grasses of the rain forest floor.

Color Discription: Basic coloration is composed of browns and grays with 1 - 3 diagonal stripes on the flanks running in the anterodorsal to posteroventral direction.

Physical Discription: Both males and females possess a small rostral process of enlarged scales. The casque is flattened but there enlarged conical scales that form a spinose process above each eye. Males and females are best distinguished by the tail of the male. There is a small, scalloped dorsal crest. Gular and ventral crets are absent although there are a few scattered spinose scales on the throat.

Size: 3"

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