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Kinyongia excubitor (BARBOUR, 1911)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mt Kenya hornless chameleon 
SynonymChamaeleo tenuis excubitor BARBOUR 1911: 219
Chamaeleon affinis embuensis LÖNNBERG 1911
Chamaeleon tenuis excurbitor LOYERIDGE 1924: 16 (ex errore)
Chamaeleo fischeri excubitor — BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 176
Chamaeleo fischeri excubitor — MERTENS 1966: 14
Bradypodion fischeri excubitor — KLAVER & BÖHME 1997
Bradypodion excubitor — NECAS 1999: 191
Kinyongia excubitor — TILBURY et al. 2006
Kinyongia excubitor — TILBURY 2010: 365
Kinyongia excubitor — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 267 
DistributionKenya (Mt. Kenya, Aberdare Mts.)

Type locality: Mweru (Meru) district, Mt. Kenya, Kenya  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R 7826 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after L.: excubitor, sentinel or guard (excubare, to keep watch, to be vigilant), perhaps referring to the sparse occurrence of this species in the region north of mount Kenya (Charles Klaver, pers. comm., 11 Jan 2023). 
References
  • Barbour, T. 1911. A new race of chameleon from British East Africa. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24: 219- 220. - get paper here
  • Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265 - get paper here
  • Böhme, W. & C. Klaver 1990. Zur Kenntnis von Bradypodion uthmoelleri (MÜLLER, 1938). Salamandra 26 (4): 260-266 - get paper here
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Klaver, Ch. J.J. & Böhme,W. 1997. Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich, 112: XIV, 1-85
  • Lönnberg, E. 1911. Reptiles, Batrachians and Fishes collected by the swedish Zoological Expedition to British East Africa 1911. Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akademiens Handligar. 47(6): 1-24. - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1924. J. East Afr. Uganda nat. Hist. Soc.,1924 (3): 16
  • 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
  • Mertens, Robert 1966. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich 83: 1-37
  • Nečas, Petr 1999. Chameleons - Nature's Hidden Jewels. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt; 348 pp.; ISBN 3-930612-04-6 (Europe)<br>ISBN 1-57524-137-4 (USA, Canada)
  • Spawls, S. & Rotich, D. 1997. An annotated checklist of the lizards of Kenya. J. East African Nat. Hist. 86: 61-83
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Stipala, J. 2014. Mountain Dragons - In search of chameleon diversity in the highlands of Kenya. Jan Stipala, 124 pp., ISBN: 978-0-9928176-0-2 - 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.
  • WALLIKEWITZ, E. 1991. Bemerkungen zur Problematik der Eizeitigung bei Bradypodion fischeri (REICHENOW, 1895). Mitteilungsblatt AG Chamäleons 4: 5-7. - get paper here
 
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