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Kinyongia vosseleri

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Kinyongia vosseleri
Scientific classification Edit this 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)

Kinyongia vosseleri, the Vosseler's blade-horned chameleon, is an endangered species of chameleon that is endemic to forests in the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.[1] It was formerly included in K. fischeri, which is not found in the range of K. vosseleri.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/172525/0
  2. ^ Mariaux J, Lutzmann N, Stipala J. 2008. The two horned chameleons of East Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152: 367-391.