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

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of evolutionary relationships, these eight lizards demonstrate the diversity of the suborder Lacertilia, which has been replaced by an array of new suborders and infraorders in recent classifications.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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Source Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 79: Lacertilia (see here, here and here)
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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 Edit this at Wikidata Jena Edit this at Wikidata
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