Kinyongia multituberculata

[DeremensisBlue]

I thought I would show off Sarge. Since I started seeing the name @Seeco popping up again I wanted to post this guy. Unfortunately, Sarge left this mortal coil in 2021. Sarge was a CH Kingyonia multituberculata from the famous Seeco lines that I got in 2011. So, Sarge made it ten years with me. I loved that guy!!

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

Great Kinyongia multituberculata! I have got my digits crossed the Tanzania reopens and possibly exports Trioceros deremensis and Kinyongia species again. Kinyongia multituberculata and Kinyongia matschiei are list as IUCN Red List Endangered species, meaning who knows. Maybe CITES farmed specimens is a consideration, keep the wild ones in the wild.

Sarge last 10 years congratulation!

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich

 

[kinyonga]

I had a few of these, wild caught back when I first started keeping chameleons…none lived for 10 years with me, but they were all wild caught adults, age unknown, when I got them. One of them figured out how to open the sliding glass door on its cage. I don’t know how he was strong enough to move that much weight…but he did! He’s the same one that used to leap from the ceiling height, off the top of a curtain he could have climbed down easily, to land on the floor and never injure himself doing it.

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

I kept a male Kinyongia multituberculata for a while. I purchased him from Sticky Tongue Chameleon Farms @ the San Diego Super Reptile Show in 1996-1997. That Kinyongia multituberculata was a great little chameleon I kept while living in Santa Ynez and going to school in Santa Barbara.

Most chameleons keepers do not recognizes how unique the genus Kinyongia is until you have had the chance to experience them up close and personnel. The genus Kinyongia is one of a kind. Their Scales, Rostral Processes, and Spines are all only found in the genus Kinyongia.

Long live Kinyongia Chameleon Keepers!

Best Regards
Jeremy A. Rich