叉角避役屬
避役科的一属爬行动物
叉角避役屬（學名：Furcifer）是一屬變色龍。牠們大部份都分佈在馬達加斯加，只有扁鼻變色龍及F. polleni是葛摩的特有種。另外，豹變色龍已被引入到留尼旺及毛里裘斯，奧力士變色龍也被引入到肯雅的奈洛比。
叉角避役属
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科学分类 
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| 界： | 动物界 Animalia |
| 门： | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
| 纲： | 爬行綱 Reptilia |
| 目： | 有鳞目 Squamata |
| 亚目： | 鬣蜥亞目 Iguania |
| 科： | 變色龍科 Chamaeleonidae |
| 属： | 叉角避役属 Furcifer Fitzinger, 1843 |
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叉角避役屬已被列在《瀕危野生動植物種國際貿易公約》附錄二中，禁止未經許可的入口。
物種
本属包括以下物种：[1]
- 天使變色龍 Furcifer angeli (Brygoo & Domergue, 1968)
- 天狗變色龍 Furcifer antimena (Grandidier, 1872)
- 雨林變色龍 Furcifer balteatus (Duméril & Bibron, 1851)
- Furcifer belalandaensis (Brygoo & Domergue, 1970)
- Furcifer bifidus (Brongniart, 1800)
- 雨林珠寶變色龍 Furcifer campani (Grandidier, 1872)
- 扁鼻變色龍 Furcifer cephalolepis (Günther, 1880)
- 拉波德氏變色龍 Furcifer labordi (Grandidier, 1872)
- 地毯變色龍 Furcifer lateralis (Gray, 1831)
- Furcifer major (Brygoo, 1971)
- 麥諾變色龍 Furcifer minor (Günther, 1879)
- Furcifer monoceras (Boettger, 1913)
- Furcifer nicosiai Jesu, Mattioli & Schimmenti, 1999[2]
- 奧力士變色龍 Furcifer oustaleti (Mocquard, 1894)[3]
- 豹變色龍 Furcifer pardalis (Cuvier, 1829)
- 彼特變色龍 Furcifer petteri (Brygoo & Domergue, 1966)
- Furcifer polleni (Peters, 1874)
- 犀牛變色龍 Furcifer rhinoceratus (Gray, 1845)
- Furcifer timoni Glaw, Köhler & Vences, 2009[4]
- Furcifer tuzetae (Brygoo, Bourgat & Domergue, 1972)
- 巨人疣冠變色龍 Furcifer verrucosus Cuvier, 1829[3]
- Furcifer viridis Florio, Ingram, Rakotondravony, Louis Jr & Raxworthy, 2012
- Furcifer voeltzkowi (Boettger, 1893)[5]
- 威爾斯變色龍 Furcifer willsii (Günther, 1890)
參考
- Glaw, Frank; Vences, Miguel. A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, 2nd edition. Köln: M. Vences & F. Glaw Verlags GbR. 1994. ISBN 3-929449-01-3.
- Spawls, S.; Drewes, R.; Ashe, J. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa. Köln: Academic Press. 2002. ISBN 0-12-656470-1.
- Anderson, C. V. (2006). Captive Chameleon Populations. Accessed 23-01-2009
- ^ Furcifer Fitzinger, 1843. GBIF. [2023-06-26]. （原始内容存档于2023-03-29）.
- ^ Jesu, R., Mattioli, F. & G. Schimmenti 1999. On the discovery of a new large chameleon inhabiting the limestone outcrops of western Madagascar: Furcifer nicosiai sp. nov. (Reptilia, Chamaeleonidae). Doriana. 8 (311): 1-14.: http://www.cites.org/common/docs/Res/12_11/Reptilia_Jesu.pdf （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Antonia M. Florio and Christopher J. Raxworthy. 2016. A Phylogeographic Assessment of the Malagasy Giant Chameleons (Furcifer verrucosus and Furcifer oustaleti). PLoS ONE. 11(6): e0154144. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154144
- ^ Glaw, F.; Köhler, J.; Vences, M. 2009: A distinctive new species of chameleon of the genus Furcifer (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) from the Montagne d’Ambre rainforest of northern Madagascar. Zootaxa, 2269: 32-42. : http://www.zsm.mwn.de/her/pdf/246_Glaw_et_al_2009_Furcifer_timoni_ZOOTAXA.pdf （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
- ^ Frank Glaw, David Prötzel, Falk Eckhardt, Njaratiana A. Raharinoro, Rojo N. Ravelojaona, Timon Glaw, Kathrin Glaw, Julia Forster and Miguel Vences. 2020. Rediscovery, Conservation Status and Genetic Relationships of the Malagasy Chameleon Furcifer voeltzkowi. SALAMANDRA. 56(4); 342–354. salamandra-journal.com/index.php/home/contents/2020-vol-56/1996-glaw-f-d-proetzel-f-eckhardt-n-a-raharinoro-r-n-ravelojaona-t-glaw-k-glaw-j-forster-m-vences/file