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In our daaf there was an incident involving the king, queen, and Rabban Gamliel. It happened that a dead lizard was found in the kitchen of the royal house. Since a lizard is one of the creeping animals whose carcasses impart ritual impurity upon contact, they wanted to pronounce the entire meal ritually impure.
What is this species of lizard and how is this hapax translated by Rashi and Chizkuni?
Is chameleon a possibility and if so what are the mythic and literary qualities of this subspecies of Iguania.