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