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Kinyongia carpenteri

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Kinyongia carpenteri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. carpenteri
Binomial name
Kinyongia carpenteri
(Parker, 1929)
Synonyms[2]
  • Chamaeleo carpenteri
    Parker, 1929
  • Bradypodion carpenteri
    Nečas, 1999
  • Kinyongia carpenteri
    Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006

Kinyongia carpenteri, commonly called Carpenter's chameleon or the helmeted chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to central Africa.

Geographic range

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K. carpenteri has a geographic range limited to the mountain highlands on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Habitat

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The preferred natural habitat of K. carpenteri is forest, at altitudes of 1,700–2,300 m (5,600–7,500 ft).[1]

Reproduction

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K. carpenteri is oviparous.[1][2]

Etymology

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The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[3][4]

Taxonomy

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Originally named in the genus Chamaeleo, the species C. carpenteri was moved into the genus Bradypodion prior to its current classification.[5][6][7] With the move into the genus Kinyongia, the masculine ending to the specific epithets of other species in the genus needed to be modified to match the feminine generic name.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Tolley K, Plumptre A, Menegon M (2014). "Kinyongia carpenteri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172554A1345274.en. Accessed on 17 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Species Kinyongia carpenteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ Parker HW (1929). "A new Chameleon from Mt. Ruwenzori". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Tenth Series. 3 (15): 280–281. doi:10.1080/00222932908672970.
  4. ^ 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 carpenteri, p. 48).
  5. ^ Klaver CJ, Böhme W (1986). "Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 22: 1–64.
  6. ^ Nečas P (1999). Chameleons—Nature's Hidden Jewels. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira. 348 pp. ISBN 3-930612-04-6 (Europe) ISBN 1-57524-137-4 (USA, Canada).
  7. ^ Tolley KA, Tilbury CR, Branch WR, Matthee CA (2004). "Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30 (2): 354–365. doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00211-2. PMID 14715227.
  8. ^ Tilbury CR, Tolley KA, Branch WR (2006). "A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera". Zootaxa. 1363: 23–38. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1363.1.2. -- see correction by Tolley et al. 2007.
  9. ^ Tolley KA, Tilbury CR, Branch WR (2007). "Corrections to species names recently placed in Kinyongia and Nadzikambia (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa. 1426: 68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1426.1.6.

Further reading

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