Kinyongia vanheygeni

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Kinyongia vanheygeni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. vanheygeni
Binomial name
Kinyongia vanheygeni
Nečas, 2009
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Kinyongia vanheygeni, the Poroto single-horned chameleon or Van Heygen's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.

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Geographic range

Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to the Ngozi Crater in the Poroto Mountains of Tanzania. [2]

Etymology

Kinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen, [3] who took the first pictures of it in the wild. [2]


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References

  1. Tolley, K.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia vanheygeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2014: e.T172533A1344512. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172533A1344512.en.
  2. 1 2 Kinyongia vanheygeni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 1 September 2017.
  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 vanheygeni, p. 272).

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