Trioceros melleri, with the common names Meller's Chameleon and Giant One-horned Chameleon is the largest species of chameleon from the African mainland (i.e. the largest of the chameleons not native to Madagascar). Meller's Chameleon gets its common name from a "Dr. Meller" who is mentioned by biologist and taxon authority John Gray in the section about the habitat of the species in his 1865 description.
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