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Kinyongia matschiei (WERNER, 1895)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Matschie’s two-horned chamaeleon
G: Matschies Zweihornchamäleon 
SynonymChamaeleon matschiei WERNER 1896: 192
Chamaeleon fischeri matschiei – WERNER 1911
Chamaeleon tornieri – WERNER 1911
Chamaeleon fischeri matschiei – NIEDEN 1913
Bradypodion fischeri fischeri – KLAVER & BÖHME 1986
Bradypodion fischeri fischeri – KLAVER & BÖHME 1997
Kinyongia fischeri fischeri – TILBURY et al. 2006
Kinyongia matschiei — TILBURY 2010: 377
Kinyongia matschiei — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 270 
DistributionTanzania (E Usambara Mts., up to 1500 m elevation)

Type locality: Derema, East Usambara, Tanzania (lecctotype locality)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: ZMB 11345 (male), Paralectotype: ZMB 66715 (juvenile), leg. Conradt 
DiagnosisDifferential diagnosis: Differs from other two-horned species (except K. matschiei) by straight lateral crests, and by apically convergent horns in males (except K. multituberculata and K. vosseleri); from K. multituberculata by its shorter dorsal crest in both males and females, and lack of tail crest; differs also from K. vosseleri by much larger size, and flat interorbital scales. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Paul Matschie (1861-1926), a zoologist who was a pioneer in mammalian taxonomy. 
References
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  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Hellmich, Walter 1956. Die von Dr. Christa Lindemann und Nin Pavlitzki in Tanganjika gesammelten Chamaeleons. Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München 4: 117-124 - get paper here
  • Klaver, C. & BÖHME,W. 1986. Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria), with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonner zool. Monogr. 22: 1-64. - get paper here
  • Klaver, Ch. J.J. & Böhme,W. 1997. Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich, 112: XIV, 1-85
  • Mariaux, Jean; Lutzmann, N. & Stipala, Jan 2008. The two-horned chamaeleons of East Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 152, 367–391 - 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
  • Nieden, F. 1913. Chamaeleon fischeri Rchw. und seine Unterarten. Sber. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 1913: 231-249.
  • Patrick, David A.; Philip Shirk, James R. Vonesh, Elizabeth B. Harper, and Kim M. Howell 2011. Abundance and Roosting Ecology of Chameleons in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania and the Potential Effects of Harvesting. Herp. Cons. Biol. 6 (3) - 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
  • Schmidt, W.; Tamm, K. & Wallikewitz, E. 2010. Chamäleons - Drachen unserer Zeit. Natur und Tier Verlag, 328 pp. [review in Reptilia 101: 64, 2013] - 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.R., Tolley K.A. & Branch W.R. 2006. A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 1363, 23–38 (correction in Zootaxa 1426: 68) - 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.
  • Werner, F. 1895. Über einige Reptilien aus Usambara (Deutsch-Ostafrika). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45: 190—194 - get paper here
 
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