Kinyongia carpenteri
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.
| Kinyongia carpenteri | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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] | |
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 1,700–2,300 m (5,600–7,500 ft).[1]
Etymology
The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[3][4]
Taxonomy
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
- 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.
- Species Kinyongia carpenteri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- 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.
- 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).
- Klaver CJ, Böhme W (1986). "Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 22: 1–64.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Kinyongia carpenteri, p. 267).