Kinyongia adolfifriderici

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Kinyongia adolfifriderici
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. adolfifriderici
Binomial name
Kinyongia adolfifriderici
(Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms [2]
  • Chamaeleon adolfi-friderici
    Sternfeld, 1912
  • Chameleo [sic] adolfi-friderici
    Hillenius, 1963
  • Chameleo adolfifriderici [sic]
    Mertens, 1966
  • Bradypodion adolfifriderici
    Klaver & Böhme, 1986
  • Kinyongia adolfifriderici
    Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006

Kinyongia adolfifriderici is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to central Africa and east Africa.

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Geographic range

K. adolfifriderici is found in Burundi, northern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. [1] [2]

Common names

Common names for K. adolfifriderici include the Ituri dwarf chameleon and the Ituri chameleon. [1]

Etymology

The specific name adolfifriderici honours Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, leader of the German Central Africa Expedition in 1907–1908, [3] during which the types were collected. [2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of K. adolfifriderici is forest, at altitudes of 1,000–2,200 m (3,300–7,200 ft). [1]

Reproduction

K. adolfifriderici is oviparous. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tolley, K.; Plumptre, A.; Behangana, M.; Greenbaum, E.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia adolfifriderici ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014: e.T172578A1346125. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172578A1346125.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kinyongia adolfifriderici at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 October 2018.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinyongia adolfifriderici, p. 2).

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