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Kinyongia magomberae MENEGON, TOLLEY, JONES, ROVERO, MARSHALL & TILBURY, 2009

IUCN Red List - Kinyongia magomberae - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Magombera chameleon 
SynonymKinyongia magomberae MENEGON, TOLLEY, JONES, ROVERO, MARSHALL & TILBURY 2009
Kinyongia magomberae — TILBURY 2010: 373
Kinyongia magomberae — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 269 
DistributionTanzania (Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park)

Type locality: Magombera Forest, 270 m elevation, Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, South Eastern Tanzania (4°66' S, 38°25' E).  
Reproductionoviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MTSN 8492, adult male, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento,
collected in April 2005 by Michele Menegon. 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
Etymologynamed after the type locality 
References
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Menegon M, Tolley KA, Jones T, Rovero F, Marshall AR, Tilbury CR 2009. A new species of chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) from the Magombera forest and the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology 58 (2): 59-70 - get paper here
  • Menegon, Michele; Simon P. Loader, Tim R.B. Davenport, Kim M. Howell, Colin R. Tilbury, Sophy Machaga, Krystal A. Tolley 2015. A new species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) highlights the biological affinities between the Southern Highlands and Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Acta Herpetologica 10 (2): 111-120 - get paper here
  • Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Tilbury, C. 2010. Chameleons of Africa: An Atlas, Including the Chameleons of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt M., 831 pp.
 
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