Kinyongia carpenteri
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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. carpenteri
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| Binomial name | |
| Kinyongia carpenteri (Parker, 1929)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
Kinyongia carpenteri, commonly called Carpenter's chameleon or the helmeted chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to central Africa.
Geographic range[edit]
K. carpenteri has a geographic range limited to the mountain highlands on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Habitat[edit]
The preferred natural habitat of K. carpenteri is forest, at altitudes of 1,700–2,300 m (5,600–7,500 ft).[1]
Reproduction[edit]
K. carpenteri is oviparous.[1][2]
Etymology[edit]
The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[3][4]
Taxonomy[edit]
Originally named in the genus Chamaeleo, the species C. carpenteri was moved into the genus Bradypodion prior to its current classification.[5][6][7] With the move into the genus Kinyongia, the masculine ending to the specific epithets of other species in the genus needed to be modified to match the feminine generic name.[8][9]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Tolley K, Plumptre A, Menegon M (2014). "Kinyongia carpenteri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172554A1345274.en. Accessed on 17 January 2022.
- ^ a b Species Kinyongia carpenteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Parker HW (1929). "A new Chameleon from Mt. Ruwenzori". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Tenth Series. 3 (15): 280–281. doi:10.1080/00222932908672970.
- ^ 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 carpenteri, p. 48).
- ^ Klaver CJ, Böhme W (1986). "Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 22: 1–64.
- ^ Nečas P (1999). Chameleons—Nature's Hidden Jewels. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira. 348 pp. ISBN 3-930612-04-6 (Europe) ISBN 1-57524-137-4 (USA, Canada).
- ^ Tolley KA, Tilbury CR, Branch WR, Matthee CA (2004). "Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30 (2): 354–365. doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00211-2. PMID 14715227.
- ^ Tilbury CR, Tolley KA, Branch WR (2006). "A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera". Zootaxa. 1363: 23–38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1363.1.2. -- see correction by Tolley et al. 2007.
- ^ Tolley KA, Tilbury CR, Branch WR (2007). "Corrections to species names recently placed in Kinyongia and Nadzikambia (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa. 1426: 68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1426.1.6.
Further reading[edit]
- Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Kinyongia carpenteri, p. 267).
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