Kinyongia boehmei

Kinyongia boehmei is species of chameleons, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The IUCN Red List gives two alternative English common names for this species: Taita blade-horned chameleon and Böhme's two-horned chameleon.[1] The species is endemic to Kenya.

Kinyongia boehmei

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. boehmei
Binomial name
Kinyongia boehmei
(Lutzmann & Nečas, 2002)
Synonyms[2]
  • Bradypodion tavetanum boehmei
    Lutzmann & Nečas, 2002
  • Kinyongia tavetana boehmei
    — Tilbury et al., 2006
  • Kinyongia boehmei
    — Mariaux et al., 2008

Etymology

The specific name, boehmei, is in honor of German herpetologist Wolfgang Böhme.[3]

Geographic range

K. boehmei is found only in the Taita Hills of southeastern Kenya, at altitudes of 1,200 to 2,200 m (3,900 to 7,200 ft).[2]

Reproduction

K. boehmei is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Tolley K (2014). "Kinyongia boehmi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017-2. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/172564/0
  2. "Kinyongia boehmei ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  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 boehmei, p. 30).

Further reading
  • Lutzmann, Nicolà; Nečas, Petr (2002). "Zum Status von Bradypodion tavetanum (Steindachner, 1891) aus den Taita Hills, Kenia, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Unterart (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) [= On the status of Bradypodion tavetanum (Steindachner, 1891) from the Taita Hills, Kenya, with description of a new subspecies (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae)]". Salamandra 38 (1): 5-14. (Bradypodion tavetanum boehmi, new subspecies, pp. 6–11, Figures 1-4). (in German, with an abstract in English, and bilingual figure captions).
  • Mariaux, Jean; Lutzmann, Nicolà; Stipala, Jan (2008). "The two-horned chamaeleons of East Africa". Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 152 (2): 367–391. (Kinyongia boehmei, new status).
  • Tilbury, Colin R.; Tolley, Krystal A.; Branch, William R. (2006). "A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera". Zootaxa 1363: 23–38. (Kinyongia tavetana boehmei, new combination).


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