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East African Dwarf Chameleons
Kinyongia
Kinyongia (derived from the group's name in Kiswahili language) is a chameleon genus recently established for several plesiomorphic species found in forest and woodland in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and far eastern DR Congo. All except K. adolfifriderici and K. tavetana are restricted to highlands, and many have very small geographic ranges. In most, at least the males have horns or knobs on their noses. They had been placed into the genus Bradypodion for some time....
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 23 known species

Kilimanjaro two-horned chamaeleon
speciesKinyongia tavetana

West Usambara two-horned chamaeleon
speciesKinyongia multituberculata

Böhme’s two-horned chamaeleon
speciesKinyongia boehmei

Matschie’s two-horned chamaeleon
speciesKinyongia matschiei

Matschie's Dwarf Chameleon
speciesKinyongia tenuis

Southern Highlands One-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia msuyae

Strange-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia xenorhina

Vosseler's Blade-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia vosseleri

Rednose Dwarf Chameleon
speciesKinyongia oxyrhina

Uthmöller's Chameleon
speciesKinyongia uthmoelleri

Nguru Two-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia fischeri

Kigezi Highlands Chameleon
speciesKinyongia tolleyae

Mount Kenya Hornless Chameleon
speciesKinyongia excubitor

Magombera chameleon
speciesKinyongia magomberae

Poroto Single-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia vanheygeni

Rugege Highlands Forest Chameleon
speciesKinyongia rugegensis

Uluguru Two-horned Chameleon
speciesKinyongia uluguruensis
Mount-Nyiro Bearded Chameleon
speciesKinyongia asheorum
Ituri chameleon
speciesKinyongia adolfifriderici
Carpenter’s chameleon
speciesKinyongia carpenteri
Itombwe Forest Chameleon
speciesKinyongia itombwensis
Lendu Chameleon
speciesKinyongia gyrolepis
Mount Nzawa Chameleon
speciesKinyongia mulyai
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 89237.