Chameleon
- Description
- Part of a collection of African specimens including bird eggs and reptiles (mostly snakes) donated by Captain CRS Pitman of London in 1959. This tiny (embryonic?) female chameleon was collected at Kilwa by CJP Ionides on 01 October 1954. Original label bears the number 4484.
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1959/34
- Collection Class
- Reptiles
- Common Name
- chameleon
- Simple Name
- reptile: preserved in spirit
- Full Name
- CHAMAELEONIDAE: chameleon sp.
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Pitman, Captain Charles Robert Senhouse (from the collection of): Ionides, Mr Constantine J P
- Collection Town
- Kilwa
- Collection County
- Southern Province: Kilwa District
- Collection Country
- Tanzania
- Collection Area Region
- East Africa
- Collection Continent
- Africa
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: Vertebrata
- Family
- CHAMAELEONIDAE