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<ol><li><i>Chamaeleon montium</i> <small>(Buchholz)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trioceros_montium&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Trioceros montium (page does not exist)">Trioceros montium</a>/Chamaeleo montium</i> <small>Buchholz, 1874</small></li>
<li><i>Lophyrus tigrinus</i> <small>(Duméril)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gonocephalus_chamaeleontinus&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus (page does not exist)">Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus</a></i> <small>Laurenti, 1768</small></li>
<li><i>Draconellus volans</i> <small>(Linné)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans" title="Draco volans">Draco volans</a></i> <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small></li>
<li><i>Phrynosoma cornutum</i> <small>(Wiegmann)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phrynosoma_cornutum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Phrynosoma cornutum (page does not exist)">Phrynosoma cornutum</a></i> <small>(Harlan, 1825)</small></li>
<li><i>Ptychozoon homalocephalum</i> (Kuhl) = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ptychozoon_kuhli" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptychozoon kuhli">Ptychozoon kuhli</a></i> <small>Stejneger, 1902</small></li>
<li><i>Basiliscus americanus</i> <small>(Daudin)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Basiliscus_basiliscus&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Basiliscus basiliscus (page does not exist)">Basiliscus basiliscus</a></i> <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small></li>
<li><i>Chlamydosaurus kingii</i> <small>(Gray)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chlamydosaurus_kingii" title="Chlamydosaurus kingii">Chlamydosaurus kingii</a></i> <small>Gray, 1827</small></li>
<li><i>Moloch horridus</i> <small>(Gray)</small> = <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moloch_horridus" title="Moloch horridus">Moloch horridus</a></i> <small>Gray, 1841</small></li></ol><p><b>English:</b>
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<ol><li>Cameroon Sailfin Chameleon</li>
<li>Chameleon Forest Dragon</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_volans" class="extiw" title="w:Draco volans">Flying Dragon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Horned_Lizard" class="extiw" title="w:Texas Horned Lizard">Texas Horned Lizard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhl%27s_Flying_Gecko" class="extiw" title="w:Kuhl's Flying Gecko">Kuhl's Flying Gecko</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Basilisk" class="extiw" title="w:Common Basilisk">Common Basilisk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frill-necked_Lizard" class="extiw" title="w:Frill-necked Lizard">Frill-necked Lizard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorny_Devil" class="extiw" title="w:Thorny Devil">Thorny Devil</a></li></ol><p>The 79th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lithography" class="extiw" title="w:lithography">lithographic</a> plate from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel" class="extiw" title="w:Ernst Haeckel">Ernst Haeckel</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur" class="extiw" title="w:Kunstformen der Natur">Kunstformen der Natur</a></i> (1904) depicts a variety of lizards, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizards" class="extiw" title="w:Lizards">Lacertilia</a>.  In terms of evolutionary relationships, these eight lizards demonstrate the diversity of the suborder Lacertilia, which has been replaced by an array of new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification#Terminations_of_names" class="extiw" title="w:Scientific classification">suborders and infraorders</a> in recent classifications.  Unusual species of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon" class="extiw" title="w:Chameleon">chameleon</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonocephalus" class="extiw" title="w:Gonocephalus">gonocephalus</a> are at the top; the second row has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_dragon" class="extiw" title="w:Flying dragon">flying dragon</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_horned_lizard" class="extiw" title="w:Texas horned lizard">Texas horned lizard</a>; the third row has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychozoon" class="extiw" title="w:Ptychozoon">flying gecko</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_basilisk" class="extiw" title="w:Common basilisk">common basilisk</a>; on the bottom row are the aptly named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/frill-necked_lizard" class="extiw" title="w:frill-necked lizard">frill-necked lizard</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorny_Devil" class="extiw" title="w:Thorny Devil">Thorny Devil</a>.  As in many of Haeckel's prints, the colors and spatial composition are more of an aesthetic choice than a reproduction of nature; the lithographer Adolf Glitsch worked directly from Haeckel's sketches rather than from first-hand specimens.<br>
(Olaf Breidbach (2004): <i>Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel</i>.  Prestel, New York, USA.)
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Ernst_Haeckel" class="extiw" title="w:en:Ernst Haeckel"><span title="German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, and artist (1834-1919)">Ernst Haeckel</span></a>
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1904
<i>Kunstformen der Natur</i> (1904), plate 79: Lacertilia (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/high/Tafel_079_300.html">here</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/high/Tafel_079_text_1_200.html">here</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/high/Tafel_079_text_2_200.html">here</a>)