Highlands of diversity: Another new chameleon from the Bale region, Ethiopia

(Pensoft Publishers) Once again, the importance of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia as a unique hotspot of species diversity is stressed: a new chameleon species from the northern slopes of this remarkable Afromontane plateau was discovered and described by Thore Koppetsch and his colleagues in the peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal Zoosystematics and Evolution. In honour of his outstanding research and passion for herpetology the new species is named after the German zoologist Wolfgang B รถ hme.
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