Dwarf Fischer's Chameleon
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The Mt. Kilimanjaro Two-Horned Chameleon (Kinyongia tavetana) is a chameleon
Chameleon
Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...

 in the genus Kinyongia
Kinyongia
Kinyongia is a chameleon genus that recently was established for several plesiomorphic species found in forest and woodland in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and far eastern DR Congo. All except K. adolfifriderici and K. tavetana are restricted to highlands and many have very small distributions....

. Its length averages 9.5 inches. They are a brown, green and grey colored chameleon that has 2 "saw blade" flattened false horns on the males. The females lack these distinctive feature.

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