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Poroto Single-horned Chameleon
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.
From the article Kinyongia vanheygeni on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to highland forests in the Rungwe and Poroto Mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
Kinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen, who took the first pictures of it in the wild.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Kinyongia vanheygeni in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 103683.