| Kinyongia vanheygeni | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Chamaeleonidae |
| Genus: | Kinyongia |
| Species: | K. vanheygeni |
| Binomial name | |
| Kinyongia vanheygeni Nečas, 2009 | |
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Kinyongia vanheygeni, the Poroto single-horned chameleon or Van Heygen's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.
Geographic range
Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to highland forests in the Rungwe and Poroto Mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.
Etymology
Kinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen, who took the first pictures of it in the wild.
References
- ^ Tolley, K.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia vanheygeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T172533A1344512. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172533A1344512.en.
- ^ Kinyongia vanheygeni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 1 September 2017.
- 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 vanheygeni, p. 272).
Further reading
- Nečas P (2009). "Ein neues Chamäleon der Gattung Kinyongia Tilbury, Tolley & Branch 2006 aus den Poroto-Bergen Süd-Tansania (Reptilia: Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) ". Sauria 31 (2): 41–48. (Kinyongia vanheygeni, new species). (in German).
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| Kinyongia vanheygeni | |