Kinyongia vosseleri, the rare Two-Blade-Horn Chameleon from East Usambara, Tanzania

Kinyongia vosseleri is one of the rarest reported Two-Blade-Horn-Chameleon species in the African continent. Described as first of all by Nieden, 1913, named after Named after Professor Julius Vosseler (1861-1933), a German zoologist. He travelled in German East Africa (Tanzania) in the years 1903-1909 and from 1910 he served as Director of the Hamburg Zoo.

There are following similar species in E Africa:

• K. boehmei

  (Taita Hills)

• K. matschiei

  (E Usambara)

• K. multituberculata

  (W Usambara, feral in Karen, Kenya)

• K. tavetana

  (Kilimanjaro, Mt. Meru)

• K. uluguruensis

  (Uluguru)

• K. vosseleri

  (E Usambara)

There is still a series of undescribed taxa from this group on various mountains in Kenya and Tazania.