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Poroto Single-horned Chameleon

Kinyongia vanheygeni

Classification

Kinyongia vanheygeni, the Poroto single-horned chameleon or Van Heygen's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. Geographic range Kinyongia vanheygeni is native to highland forests in the Rungwe and Poroto Mountains of southern Tanzania and northern Malawi. Etymology Kinyongia vanheygeni was named after Belgian herpetologist Emmanuel Van Heygen, who took the first pictures of it in the wild.

Distribution

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