Bale mountains...Ethiopia...new chameleon species named...T. Wolfgangboehmei...

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"Researchers have described a new chameleon species from the Bale Mountains of south-central Ethiopia, and say the biodiversity hotspot may harbor even more".

"Named Wolfgang Böhme’s Ethiopian chameleon (Trioceros wolfgangboehmei), in honor of the senior herpetologist at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZMFK) in Bonn, Germany, the chameleon is around 15 centimeters (6 inches) long and has a distinctive crest of large spiny scales along its back and tail"...

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/s...es-described-from-bale-mountains-of-ethiopia/
 
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