Kinyongia adolfifriderici

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Kinyongia adolfifriderici
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Chamaeleonidae
Genus:	Kinyongia
Species:	K. adolfifriderici
Binomial name
*Kinyongia adolfifriderici* (Sternfeld, 1912)
Synonyms^[2]
Chamaeleon adolfi-friderici Sternfeld, 1912 Chameleo [sic] adolfi-friderici — Hillenius, 1963 Chameleo adolfifriderici [sic] — Mertens, 1966 Bradypodion adolfifriderici — Klaver & Böhme, 1986 Kinyongia adolfifriderici — Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006

Kinyongia adolfifriderici is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is native to central Africa and east Africa.

Geographic range

K. adolfifriderici is found in Burundi, northern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.^[1]^[2]

Common names for K. adolfifriderici include the Ituri dwarf chameleon and the Ituri chameleon.^[1]

The preferred natural habitat of K. adolfifriderici is forest, at altitudes of 1,000–2,200 m (3,300–7,200 ft).^[1]

K. adolfifriderici is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tolley, K.; Plumptre, A.; Behangana, M.; Greenbaum, E.; Menegon, M. (2014). "Kinyongia adolfifriderici ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T172578A1346125. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172578A1346125.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kinyongia adolfifriderici at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 October 2018.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Kinyongia adolfifriderici, p. 2).

Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Kinyongia adolfifriderici, p. 264).
Sternfeld R (1912). "Reptilia" pp. 197–280. In: Schubotz H (editor) (1912). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrikan-Expedition 1907–1908 unter Führing Adolf Friedrichs, Hertzogs zu Mecklenburg. Band IV. Zoologie II. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 485 pp. (Chameleon adolfi-friderici, new species, p. 258). (in German).

Taxon identifiers
Kinyongia adolfifriderici	Wikidata: Q3197236 Wikispecies: Kinyongia adolfifriderici CoL: 3R87Q GBIF: 4287386 iNaturalist: 32980 ITIS: 719558 IUCN: 172578 NCBI: 414976 Observation.org: 100213 Open Tree of Life: 844442 RD: adolfifriderici Species+: 7130

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