Endangered
Kinyongia vosseleri
Kinyongia vosseleri
Kinyongia vosseleri is a chameleon in the family Chamaeleonidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Tanzania.
The chameleon
K. Vosseleri is a medium-large species in the genus Kinyongia at up to 29.5 cm (11.6 in) in total length, with the tail making up more than half of that.
Range and habitat
K. Vosseleri is only found in forests in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, at an altitude of up to c. 1,500 m (4,900 ft). Its range overlaps with the closely related K. Matschiei, whereas K. Multituberculata is found in the West Usambara Mountains. The species is endemic to Tanzania.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
A chameleon rocks, aims, and shoots the tongue. Many dwarf species live in low vegetation or leaf litter, not only in high canopy.
In crisis
Kinyongia vosseleri is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Kinyongia vosseleri, Wikidata item Q3197245. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
