Kinyongia adolfifriderici
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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
    — Hillenius, 1963
  • Chameleo adolfifriderici [sic]
    — Mertens, 1966
  • Bradypodion adolfifriderici
    — Klaver & Böhme, 1986
  • Kinyongia adolfifriderici
    — Tilbury, Tolley & 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. 1 2 3 4 Tolley, K.; Plumptre, A.; Behangana, M.; Greenbaum, E.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia adolfifriderici ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T172578A1346125. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172578A1346125.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kinyongia adolfifriderici at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 October 2018.
  3. ↑ 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 adolfifriderici, p. 2).

Further reading

  • 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 adolfifriderici, p. 264).
  • Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia" pp. 197–280. In: Schubotz H (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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