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Kinyongia gyrolepis
circular-scaled chameleon
The circular-scaled chameleon (Kinyongia gyrolepis) is known only from a few specimens collected mainly in the Lendu Plateau's now mostly-cleared forests.
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 2, restricted, extent unclear Class Reptilia Realm Afrotropical Locality The Lendu Plateau As IUCN records it Kinyongia gyrolepis Greenbaum, Tolley, Joma & Kusamba, 2012
This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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