write down about chameleon features in detail
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Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.[1] These species come in a range of colors, and many species have the ability to change color.
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Iguania
Clade:
Acrodonta
Family:
Chamaeleonidae
Rafinesque, 1815
Genera
Brookesiinae
Brookesia
Palleon
Chamaeleoninae
Archaius
Bradypodion
Calumma
Chamaeleo
Furcifer
Kinyongia
Nadzikambia
Rieppeleon
Rhampholeon
Trioceros
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Other characteristics of chameleon include zygodactylous feet (with toes fused into opposed bundles of two and three) acrodont dentition ( with the teeth attached to the edge of the jaw) , eyes that move independently, atrophied venom glands that produce harmless trace amounts of venom, and a long slender projectile tongue. The name has also been applied to the false chameleon, or anole, a new world lizard of the genus anolis ( family lguanidae).