Kinyongia

Taxobox
name = "Kinyongia"


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image_caption = Sleeping Dwarf Fischer's Chameleon ("Kinyongia tavetanum")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Iguania
familia = Chamaeleonidae
genus = "Kinyongia"
genus_authority = Tilbury, Tolley and Branch, 2006

The chameleon genus "Kinyongia" was recently established for several plesiomorphic species from eastern to central Africa, most of which at least in males have horns or knobs on the nose. They were erroneously placed into "Bradypodion" for some time (Klaver & Böhme 1986, Tolley "et al." 2004).

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"

References

* (1986): Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology. "Bonner Zoologische Monographien" 22: 1–64.
* (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 [http://academic.sun.ac.za/botzoo/tolley/tolley%20et%20al%20MPE%202004.pdf PDF fulltext]