Kinyongia vanheygeni

Kinyongia vanheygeni

Poroto single-horned chameleon, Van heygen's chameleon

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Kinyongia vanheygeni

Kinyongia vanheygeni, the Poroto single-horned chameleon or Van Heygen's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae.

Animal name origin

Kinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen, who took the first pictures of it in the wild.

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Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to the Ngozi Crater in the Poroto Mountains of Tanzania.

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References

1. Kinyongia vanheygeni Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyongia_vanheygeni
2. Kinyongia vanheygeni on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/172533/1344512

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