Kinyongia
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| Kinyongia matschiei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
| Genus: | Kinyongia Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006 |
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Kinyongia (derived from the group's name in
oviparous.[3]
They were initially placed in the genus Chamaeleo and by some authorities subsequently transferred into Bradypodion, but in 2006 they were moved to their own genus, Kinyongia.[1][4][5][6]
Species
The following 23 species are recognized as being valid.[7]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| Kinyongia adolfifriderici (Sternfeld, 1912) | Ituri chameleon | Burundi, northern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. | |
| Kinyongia asheorum (Nečas et al., 2009) | Mount Nyiro bearded chameleon | Kenya | |
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Kinyongia boehmei (Lutzmann & Nečas, 2002) | Taita blade-horned chameleon, Böhme's two-horned chameleon | Kenya |
| Kinyongia carpenteri (Parker, 1929) | Carpenter's chameleon | Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | |
Kinyongia excubitor (Barbour , 1911) |
Mt. Kenya hornless chameleon | Kenya | |
Kinyongia fischeri (Reichenow , 1887) |
Fischer's chameleon, Nguru blade-horned chameleon, Nguru two-horned chameleon | Tanzania. | |
| Kinyongia gyrolepis (Greenbaum et al., 2012) | Lendu chameleon | Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| Kinyongia itombwensis Hughes et al., 2017 | Itombwe forest chameleon | Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
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Kinyongia magomberae Menegon et al., 2009 |
Magombera chameleon | Tanzania |
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Kinyongia matschiei (F. Werner, 1895) | giant monkey-tailed East Usambara two-horned chameleon | Tanzania. |
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Kinyongia msuyae Menegon et al., 2015 | Tanzania. | |
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Kinyongia multituberculata (Nieden , 1913) |
West Usambara two-horned chameleon | Tanzania |
| Kinyongia mulyai Tilbury & Tolley, 2015 | Democratic Republic of the Congo. | ||
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, 1988) | sharp-nosed chameleon | Tanzania. |
Kinyongia rugegensis Hughes et al., 2017 |
Rugege highlands forest chameleon | Burundi | |
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Kinyongia tavetana (Steindachner, 1891) | Kilimanjaro blade-horned chameleon, Kilimanjaro two-horned chameleon | southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. |
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Kinyongia tenuis (Matschie, 1892) | Usambara soft-horned chameleon | Kenya and Tanzania |
| Kinyongia tolleyae Hughes et al., 2017 | Tolley's forest chameleon | Uganda. | |
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Kinyongia uluguruensis (Loveridge, 1957) | Uluguru two-horned chameleon | Tanzania |
| Kinyongia uthmoelleri (L. Müller, 1938) | Hanang hornless chameleon | Tanzania. | |
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Kinyongia vanheygeni Nečas, 2009 | Van Heygen's chameleon | Tanzania. |
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Kinyongia vosseleri (Nieden, 1913) | East Usambara two-horned chameleon | Tanzania. |
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Kinyongia xenorhina (Boulenger , 1901) |
strange-nosed chameleon | western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Kinyongia.
References
- ^ a b Tilbury CR, Tolley KA, Branch WR (2006). "A review of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the descriptions of two new genera". Zootaxa 1363: 23–38.
- ^ Lutzmann, Nicolà (2008). "Some important changes in the systematics of Bradypodion Fitzinger, 1843". Chameleons! Online E-Zine, February 2008. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
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- ^ Klaver CJ, Böhme W (1986). "Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology". Bonner Zoologische Monographien 22: 1–64.
- ^ Tolley, Krystal A.; Tilbury, Colin R.; Branch, William R. (2007). "Corrections to species names recently placed in Kinyongia and Nadzikambia (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa 1426: 68.
- ^ Genus Kinyongia at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Nečas P, Sindaco R, Kořený L, Kopečná J, Malonza PK, Modrý D (2009). "Kinyongia asheorum sp. n., a new montane chameleon from the Nyiro Range, northern Kenya (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa 2028: 41–50.