Kinyongia vanheygeni

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

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

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]


References

  1. ↑ Tolley, K.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia vanheygeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T172533A1344512. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172533A1344512.en. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  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).

Further reading

  • 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).
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