Kinyongia vosseleri

Kinyongia vosseleri
	Closeup of head of male
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Chamaeleonidae
Genus:	Kinyongia
Species:	K. vosseleri
Binomial name
	Kinyongia vosseleri; (Nieden, 1913)
Synonyms
	Chamaeleon fischeri vosseleri ; Nieden,1913; Bradypodion fischeri ; — Nečas, 1999; Kinyongia fischeri ; — Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006; Kinyongia vosseleri ; — Tilbury, 2010;

Kinyongia vosseleri, also known commonly as the Usambara two-horned chameleon and Vosseler's blade-horned chameleon, is an endangered species of lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.

Etymology

The specific name, vosseleri, is in honor of German zoologist Julius Vosseler.^[3]

K. vosseleri is only found in forests in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, at an altitude of 1,500 m (4,900 ft).^[1]

K. vosseleri was formerly included in K. fischeri, which is not found in the range of K. vosseleri.^[1]^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c Tolley K, Menegon M (2014). "Kinyongia vosseleri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014.
^ Species Kinyongia vosseleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinyongia vosseleri, p. 277).
^ Mariaux J, Lutzmann N, Stipala J (2008). "The two horned chameleons of East Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152: 367-391.

Nieden F (1913). "Chamaeleon fischeri Rchw. und seine Unterarten ". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1913 (4): 231–249 + Plates XIV–XVI. (Chamaeleon fischeri vosseleri, new subspecies, pp. 247–248 + Plate XV, figure 5, male; Plate XVI, figure 9, female). (in German).
Spawls, Stephen; Howell. Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Kinyongia vosseleri, p. 278).
Tilbury, Colin (2010). Chameleons of Africa, an Atlas, including the chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 831 pp. ISBN 978-3899734515. (Kinyongia vosseleri, p. 418).

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