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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
| Genus: | Kinyongia |
| Species: | K. vanheygeni
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| Kinyongia vanheygeni Nečas, 2009
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Geographic range
editKinyongia vanheygeni is native to highland forests in the Rungwe and Poroto Mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.[1][2]
Etymology
editKinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen,[3] who took the first pictures of it in the wild.[2]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Kinyongia vanheygeni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 September 2017.
- ^ 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
edit- 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).