Nadzikambia

Mlanje Mountain Chameleon
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Chamaeleonidae
Genus:	Nadzikambia; Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006
Species:	N. mlanjense
Binomial name
	Nadzikambia mlanjense;
Synonyms
	Bradypodion mlanjense; Chamaeleo mlanjense

The Mlanje Mountain Chameleon, Nadzikambia mlanjense, is presently the only species^{[verification needed]} if the recently established genus Nadzikambia. It is a plesiomorphic small chamaeleon from eastern Africa.

Initially placed into Chamaeleo, it was for some time moved to the South African dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion) by some (Klaver & Böhme, 1986). But this was criticized because plesiomorphies cannot be used to define clades, and eventually turned out to be in error (Tolley et al. 2004).

References

Klaver, C.J.J. & Böhme, W. (1986): Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 22: 1–64.
Tolley, Krystal A.; Tilbury, Colin R.; Branch, William R. & Matthee, Conrad A. (2004): Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 354–365. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00211-2 PDF fulltext

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