Kinyongia carpenteri explained
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
K. carpenteri has a geographic range limited to the mountain highlands on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of K. carpenteri is forest, at altitudes of 1700–.
Reproduction
K. carpenteri is oviparous.
Etymology
The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[1] [2]
Taxonomy
Originally named in the genus Chamaeleo, the species C. carpenteri was moved into the genus Bradypodion prior to its current classification.[3] [4] [5] 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.[6] [7]
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. . (Kinyongia carpenteri, p. 267).
Notes and References
- Parker HW. Hampton Wildman Parker. 1929. A new Chameleon from Mt. Ruwenzori. Annals and Magazine of Natural History . Tenth Series. 3. 15 . 280–281. 10.1080/00222932908672970.
- [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]
- . 1986. Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 22. 1–64.
- [species:Petr Nečas|Nečas P]
- 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. 10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00211-2. 14715227.
- 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. 10.11646/zootaxa.1363.1.2. -- see correction by Tolley et al. 2007.
- Tolley KA, Tilbury CR, Branch WR . 2007. Corrections to species names recently placed in Kinyongia and Nadzikambia (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa. 1426. 68. 10.11646/zootaxa.1426.1.6.
