Kinyongia

Kinyongia
Sleeping Dwarf Fischer's Chameleon (Kinyongia tavetanum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Chamaeleonidae
Genus:	Kinyongia Tilbury, Tolley and Branch, 2006

Kinyongia is a chameleon genus that recently was established for several plesiomorphic species found in forest and woodland in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and far eastern DR Congo. All except K. adolfifriderici and K. tavetana are restricted to highlands and many have very small distributions. In most at least the males have horns or knobs on the nose. They were erroneously placed into Bradypodion for some time (Klaver & Böhme 1986, Tolley et al. 2004). It has recently been pointed out that the ending to the specific epithet in several of the below listed species should be modified to match the feminine genus name (Tolley et al. 2007).

Species are:

• Ituri Chameleon, Kinyongia adolfifriderici
• Boehme's Chameleon, Kinyongia boehmei
• Carpenter's Chameleon, Kinyongia carpenteri
• Mt. Kenya Hornless Chameleon, Kinyongia excubitor
• Fischer's Chameleon, Kinyongia fischeri
• Giant Monkey-tailed East Usambara Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia matschiei
• West Usambara Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia multituberculata
• Sharp-nosed Chameleon, Kinyongia oxyrhina
• Dwarf Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia tavetana
• Usambara Soft-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia tenuis
• Uluguru Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia uluguruensis
• Hanang Hornless Chameleon, Kinyongia uthmoelleri
• East Usambara Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia vosseleri
• Strange-nosed Chameleon, Kinyongia xenorhina
• Magombera chameleon, Kinyongia magomberae

References

• Klaver, C.J.J. & 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. (2004): Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30: 354–365. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00211-2 PDF fulltext
• 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.

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