Kinyongia adolfifriderici

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Kinyongia adolfifriderici

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. adolfifriderici
Binomial name
Kinyongia adolfifriderici
(Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms[2]
  • Chamaeleon adolfi-friderici
    Sternfeld, 1912
  • Chameleo [sic] adolfi-friderici
    — , 1963
  • Chameleo adolfifriderici [sic]
    — Mertens, 1966
  • Bradypodion adolfifriderici
    — & Böhme, 1986
  • Kinyongia adolfifriderici
    — , & Branch, 2006

Kinyongia adolfifriderici is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to central Africa and east Africa.

Geographic range[]

K. adolfifriderici is found in Burundi, northern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.[1][2]

Common names[]

Common names for K. adolfifriderici include the Ituri dwarf chameleon and the Ituri chameleon.[1]

Etymology[]

The specific name adolfifriderici honours Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, leader of the German Central Africa Expedition in 1907–1908,[3] during which the types were collected.[2]

Habitat[]

The preferred natural habitat of K. adolfifriderici is forest, at altitudes of 1,000–2,200 m (3,300–7,200 ft).[1]

Reproduction[]

K. adolfifriderici is oviparous.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d , , , , (2014). "Kinyongia adolfifriderici ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T172578A1346125. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172578A1346125.en.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Kinyongia adolfifriderici at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 October 2018.
  3. ^ , , (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinyongia adolfifriderici, p. 2).

Further reading[]

  • , , , (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Kinyongia adolfifriderici, p. 264).
  • Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia" pp. 197–280. In: (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrikan-Expedition 1907–1908 unter Führing Adolf Friedrichs, Hertzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV. Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 485 pp. (Chameleon adolfi-friderici, new species, p. 258). (in German).


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