Kinyongia vanheygeni, the Poroto single-horned chameleon or Van Heygen's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.

Kinyongia vanheygeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. vanheygeni
Binomial name
Kinyongia vanheygeni
Nečas, 2009

Geographic range

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Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to highland forests in the Rungwe and Poroto Mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.[1][2]

Etymology

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

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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).

Further reading

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  • Nečas P (2009). "Ein neues Chamäleon der Gattung Kinyongia Tilbury, Tolley & Branch 2006 aus den Poroto-Bergen Süd-Tansania (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) [= A new chameleon of the genus Kinyongia Tilbury, Tolley & Branch 2006 from the Poroto Mountains, southern Tanzania (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae)]". Sauria 31 (2): 41–48. (Kinyongia vanheygeni, new species). (in German).