Kinyongia adolfifriderici
Kinyongia adolfifriderici | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Iguania |
Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
Genus: | Kinyongia |
Species: | K. adolfifriderici
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Binomial name | |
Kinyongia adolfifriderici (Sternfeld, 1912)
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Synonyms[2] | |
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[]
- ^ 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)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Kinyongia adolfifriderici at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 October 2018.
- ^ , , (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).
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Kinyongia
- Vertebrates of Burundi
- Reptiles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Vertebrates of Rwanda
- Reptiles of Uganda
- Taxa named by Richard Sternfeld
- Reptiles described in 1912
- Chameleon stubs