Kinyongia excubitor

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acrodonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Iguania Infraordo: Acrodonta

Kinyongia excubitor (Barbour, 1911)

Holotype: MCZ 7828, adult ♀, collected by W.R. Zappey.
Type locality: “Mweru District, north of Mt. Kenia, British East Africa [=Kenya]”.

Chamaeleo tenuis excubitor Barbour, 1911: 219 [original combination, as subspecies]
Chamaeleo fischeri excubitor — Barbour & Loveridge, 1928: 176 [subsequent combination]
Bradypodion fischeri excubitor — Klaver & Böhme, 1997 [subsequent combination]
Chamaeleo excubitor — Spawls, Howell, Drewes & Ashe, 2002 [subsequent combination, elevated to species]
Kinyongia excubitor — Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006 [subsequent combination]

Barbour, T. 1911. A new race of chameleon from British East Africa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 24: 219–220. BHL
Klaver, C.J. & Böhme, W. 1997. Chamaeleonidae. Das Tierreich, 112: XIV, 1–85. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co. Reference page.
Tilbury, C.R., Tolley, K.A. & Branch, W.R. 2006. A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 1363(1): 23–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1363.1.2 Reference page.

Tolley, K. & Menegon, M. 2014. IUCN: Kinyongia excubitor (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T172569A1345671. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T172569A1345671.en. Accessed on 15 May 2026.