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Kinyongia uthmoelleri (MÜLLER, 1938)

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Higher TaxaChamaeleonidae, Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesKinyongia uthmoelleri uthmoelleri MÜLLER 1938
Kinyongia uthmoelleri artytor LUTZMANN, STIPALA, LADEMANN, KRAUSE, WILMS & SCHMITZ 2010 
Common NamesE: Uthmöller‘s Chameleon 
SynonymChamaeleo uthmoelleri MÜLLER 1938
Bradypodion uthmoelleri — NECAS 1999: 191
Kinyongia uthmoelleri — TILBURY et al. 2006
Kinyongia uthmoelleri — TILBURY 2010: 409
Kinyongia uthmoelleri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 276

Kinyongia uthmoelleri artytor LUTZMANN, STIPALA, LADEMANN, KRAUSE, WILMS & SCHMITZ 2010
Kinyongia uthmoelleri artytor — GLAW 2015: 214 
DistributionTanzania (Mt. Hanang, Ngorongoro Crater, Oldeani)

Type locality: Mount Hanang (Guruwe), C Tanzania.

artytor: Tanzania (South Pare Mountains and the Ngorongoro crater highlands); Type locality: South Pare Mountains.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 1/1948
holotype: MHNG 2612.65, paratypes: ZFMK [artytor] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (artytor): A small chameleon, which differs from the nominate form on Mt. Hanang in the following characters: less convex scalation on body and head, smooth head crests, parietal crest distinctly bi-forked anteriorly, the ridge of the parietal crest contains only one scale row, a higher ratio of HL to HW and HL to HBL (relatively longer and narrower heads), smaller total length [153.0–199.0 mm in males (204.6–227.0 mm in K. u. uthmoelleri) and 151.0–173.7 mm in females (161.4–181.4 mm in K. u. uthmoelleri)] and no sexual dimorphism in the relative tail length.


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Mr. Wolfgang Uthmöller, the collector of the types. He was affiliated with the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.

“The subspecies name “artytor” is the latinised substantive of the Greek verb “αρτυειν“ (artyein), which can be translated as “to prepare / to make ready requiring skills”. We name this new subspecies in honour and tribute to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme and his skills to prepare dozens of students on their way to scientific careers, which was also the case for four of the authors of this publication” (from LUTZMANN et al. 2010). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhme, W. & C. Klaver 1990. Zur Kenntnis von Bradypodion uthmoelleri (MÜLLER, 1938). Salamandra 26 (4): 260-266 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Glaw, F. 2015. Taxonomic checklist of chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). [type catalogue] Vertebrate Zoology 65 (2): 167–246 - get paper here
  • Lutzmann, Nicolá; Jan Stipala, Ralph Lademann, Patrick Krause, Thomas Wilms & Andreas Schmitz 2010. Description of a new subspecies of Kinyongia uthmoelleri (Müller, 1938) (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) with notes on its captive propagation. Bonn Zool. Bull. 57 (2): 281–288 - 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
  • Müller, L. 1938. Über die von Herren W. Uthmöller und L. Bohmann im britischen Madatsgebiet "Tanganyika Territory" gesammelten Chamäleons. Zool. Anz. 122: 20-23.
  • Nečas, P. & P. Nagy 2009. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Biology of Uthmöller‘s Chameleon, Kinyongia uthmoelleri (Müller, 1938). Sauria 31 (1): 15-21 - get paper here
  • 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)
  • Price, T. 1996. Zur weiteren Kenntnis von Bradypodion uthmoelleri (Müller, 1938) aus Tansania. Salamandra 32 (3): 199-202 - 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.
 
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