Zootaxa: a Review of the Systematics of the Genus Bradypodion

Zootaxa: a Review of the Systematics of the Genus Bradypodion

Zootaxa 1363: 23–38 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1363 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera COLIN R. TILBURY 1,4*, KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY 2,4 & WILLIAM R. BRANCH 3 1No. 2 The Bend, P.O. Box 347, Nottingham Road, 3280, KZN, South Africa. 2Molecular Systematics Laboratory, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Cen- tre, P/Bag X7, Claremont 7735 South Africa. 3Port Elizabeth Museum, P.O. Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa. 4Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa *Corresponding author Abstract The taxonomic history and composition of the genus Bradypodion as construed by Klaver & Böhme (1986) and new morphological and molecular data relevant to the taxonomy of the group is reviewed. The combined evidence strongly supports a formal rearrangement of the group into three distinct genera. Bradypodion, type species Chamaeleo pumilus Daudin 1802, is retained for the southern African species. Two new genera are erected to accommodate additional well-diagnosed clades within central and east African species previously referred to Bradypodion. Species of the “fischeri complex” are assigned to Kinyongia gen. nova, whilst the endemic Mulanje chameleon is placed in the monotypic genus Nadzikambia gen. nova. Key words: Chamaeleonidae, Bradypodion, Phylogeny, new genera, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA Introduction The first species of Bradypodion to be formally described was Chamaeleo pumilus Daudin 1802. Fitzinger (1843) subsequently designated pumilum as the type species for a new genus, Bradypodion. Over the course of the next 133 years, the taxonomy of Bradypodion pumilum and its cogeners underwent a convoluted series of taxonomic shifts including being assigned to two other genera viz: Microsaura and Lophosaura (Grey 1864, Boulenger 1887, Werner 1902, Methuen & Hewitt 1914, Fitzsimons 1943, Loveridge Accepted by S. Carranza: 5 Oct. 2006; published: 23 Nov. 2006 23.

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