Kinyongia is a chameleon

Chameleon

Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...

 genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 that recently was established for several plesiomorphic species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 found in forest and woodland in Kenya

Kenya

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, Tanzania

Tanzania

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, Uganda

Uganda

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, Rwanda

Rwanda

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 and far eastern DR Congo. All except K. adolfifriderici and K. tavetana are restricted to highlands and many have very small distributions. In most at least the males have horns or knobs on the nose. They were erroneously placed into Bradypodion

Bradypodion

Bradypodion is one of six genera of chameleons within the "true" or "typical" chameleons . They are native to southern Africa, and are sometimes collectively called South African dwarf chameleons...

for some time (Klaver & Böhme 1986, Tolley et al. 2004). It has recently been pointed out that the ending to the specific epithet in several of the below listed species should be modified to match the feminine

Grammatical gender

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 genus name (Tolley et al. 2007).

Species

• Ituri Chameleon, Kinyongia adolfifriderici
• Mount-Nyiro Bearded Chameleon, Kinyongia asheorum
• Boehme's Chameleon, Kinyongia boehmei
• Carpenter's Chameleon
  Carpenter's Chameleon
  Carpenter's Chameleon, Kinyongia carpenteri is a species with a distribution limited to the mountain highlands on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The species name honors the type specimen's collector, Dr. G. D. Hale Carpenter...
  
  , Kinyongia carpenteri
• Mt. Kenya Hornless Chameleon, Kinyongia excubitor
• Fischer's Chameleon
  Fischer's Chameleon
  The Fischer's Chameleon is a species of chameleon native to the Nguru and Nguu mountains of Tanzania. A number of other species have been mistakenly called by this species' name or classified as subspecies but recent study has shown that these other species are actually their own distinct,...
  
  , Kinyongia fischeri
• Magombera chameleon
  Magombera chameleon
  Kinyongia magomberae, commonly known as the Magombera chameleon, is a species of chameleon. The holotype of this species was discovered inside the jaws of a twig snake in the Magombera Forest of Tanzania by Andrew Marshall of the University of York and Flamingo Land...
  
  , Kinyongia magomberae
• Giant Monkey-tailed East Usambara Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia matschiei
• West Usambara Two-horned Chameleon
  West Usambara Two-horned Chameleon
  The West Usambara Two-horned Chameleon is a chameleon native to the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Its length averages to 18.7 centimetres....
  
  , Kinyongia multituberculata
• Sharp-nosed Chameleon
  Sharp-nosed Chameleon
  The Sharp-nosed Chameleon is a chameleon native to the Uluguru and Uzungwe Mountains of Tanzania. Its length averages 16 cm . Females are smaller than males, and have smaller helmet protrusions. They are usually coloured white, gray, brown and ochre. Males have bluish horns.The sharp-nosed...
  
  , Kinyongia oxyrhina
• Dwarf Two-horned Chameleon
  Dwarf Fischer's Chameleon
  The Mt. Kilimanjaro Two-Horned Chameleon is a chameleon in the genus Kinyongia. Its length averages 9.5 inches. They are a brown, green and grey colored chameleon that has 2 "saw blade" flattened false horns on the males. The females lack these distinctive feature.-External links:...
  
  , Kinyongia tavetana
• Usambara Soft-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia tenuis
• Uluguru Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia uluguruensis
• Hanang Hornless Chameleon, Kinyongia uthmoelleri
• Van Heygen's Chameleon
  Van Heygen's Chameleon
  Van Heygen's Chameleon is a chameleon native to the Ngozi Crater in the Poroto Mountains of Tanzania. It was discovered by Emmanuel Van Heygen of ExoTerra....
  
  , Kinyongia vanheygeni
• East Usambara Two-horned Chameleon, Kinyongia vosseleri
• Strange-nosed Chameleon
  Strange-nosed Chameleon
  The Strange-nosed Chameleon is a chameleon native to the rainforests of the Ruwenzori Mountains of western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo....
  
  , Kinyongia xenorhina