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  1. Chamaeleon montium (Buchholz) = Trioceros montium/Chamaeleo montium Buchholz, 1874 (See Trioceros montium)
  2. Lophyrus tigrinus (Duméril) = Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus Laurenti, 1768 (See Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus)
  3. Draconellus volans (Linné) = Draco volans Linnaeus, 1758 (See Draco volans)
  4. Phrynosoma cornutum (Wiegmann) = Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1825) (See Phrynosoma cornutum)
  5. Ptychozoon homalocephalum (Kuhl) = Ptychozoon kuhli Stejneger, 1902 (See Ptychozoon kuhli)
  6. Basiliscus americanus (Daudin) = Basiliscus basiliscus (Linnaeus, 1758) (See Basiliscus basiliscus)
  7. Chlamydosaurus kingii (Gray) = Chlamydosaurus kingii Gray, 1827 (See Chlamydosaurus kingii)
  8. Moloch horridus (Gray) = Moloch horridus Gray, 1841 (See Moloch horridus)

English:

  1. Cameroon Sailfin Chameleon
  2. Chameleon Forest Dragon
  3. Flying Dragon
  4. Texas Horned Lizard
  5. Kuhl's Flying Gecko
  6. Common Basilisk
  7. Frill-necked Lizard
  8. Thorny Devil

The 79th lithographic plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904) depicts a variety of lizards, or Lacertilia. In terms of evolutionary relationships, these eight lizards demonstrate the diversity of the suborder Lacertilia, which has been replaced by an array of new suborders and infraorders in recent classifications. Unusual species of chameleon and gonocephalus are at the top; the second row has a flying dragon and a Texas horned lizard; the third row has a flying gecko and a common basilisk; on the bottom row are the aptly named frill-necked lizard and the Thorny Devil. 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.
(Olaf Breidbach (2004): Visions of Nature: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Prestel, New York, USA.)

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Date
Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 79: Lacertilia (see here, here and here)
Author
Ernst Haeckel  (1834–1919)  wikidata:Q48246 s:en:Author:Ernst Haeckel q:en:Ernst Haeckel
 
Ernst Haeckel
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Birth name: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel; Haeckel; Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
Description German naturalist, philosopher and artist
Date of birth/death 16 February 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 9 August 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Potsdam Jena
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22:08, 26 February 2006Thumbnail for version as of 22:08, 26 February 20062,378 × 3,321 (2.16 MB)RagesossThe 79th plate from Ernst Haeckel's ''Kunstformen der Natur'' (1904), depicting organisms classified as Lacertilia. Category:Ernst Haeckel

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