''Kinyongia tavetana'' (common names: Kilimanjaro two-horned chameleon, Dwarf Fischer's chameleon) is a chameleon in the genus ''

Kinyongia ''Kinyongia'' (derived from the group's name in Kiswahili language) is a chameleon genus recently established for several plesiomorphic species found in forest and woodland in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and far eastern DR Congo. All excep ...

''. It is native to southern

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and northern

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. Its type locality is Mount Kilimanjaro, but it is also known from Chyulu Hills and

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to the

Pare Mountains The Pare Mountains are a mountain range in northeastern Tanzania, located north of the Usambara Mountains. The mountains are administratively located in the Kilimanjaro Region, specifically in the Mwanga District and Same District. The North an ...

.Mariaux J, Lutzmann N, Stipala J. 2008. The two horned chameleons of East Africa. ''Zool. J. Linn. Soc.'' 152: 367-391. Until 2008, it was widely confused with '' K. fischeri'', but the ranges of the two species do not overlap. The species' length averages 9.5 inches, and it is usually brown, green and grey. Males have two "saw blade" flattened false horns, while the females lack these distinctive feature.

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Kinyongia Reptiles of Kenya Reptiles of Tanzania Reptiles described in 1891 Taxa named by Franz Steindachner {{chameleon-stub