Kinyongia vosseleri

Kinyongia vosseleri, the Vosseler's blade-horned chameleon, is an endangered species of chameleon that is endemic to forests in the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.[1] It was formerly included in K. fischeri, which is not found in the range of K. vosseleri.[1][2]

Kinyongia vosseleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Chamaeleonidae
Genus: Kinyongia
Species:
K. vosseleri
Binomial name
Kinyongia vosseleri
(Nieden, 1913)

References

  1. "Kinyongia vosseleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
  2. Mariaux J, Lutzmann N, Stipala J. 2008. The two horned chameleons of East Africa. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152: 367-391.


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