Cloacal prolapse
Chameleons may sometimes have tissue hanging out the cloaca which they cannot pull back. The medicinal term for this is prolapse. No matter which tissue is affected, a cloacal prolapse is always an urgent...
Gout
What is gout? Gout is a not curable disease that makes degradation products of protein metabolism deposit inside the body. The disease typically shows attacks with painful joints. In most cases of diseased chameleons,...
How much is a chameleon?
Keeping and breeding chameleons are relatively costly compared to other pets. Each chameleon has to be kept in its own terrarium, which takes up a lot of space but also means more effort. The...
Furcifer lateralis
First description: (Gray, 1831) Origin of the species name: The English zoologist John Edward Gray was very brief in his description of this chameleon species: it consists of just keywords instead of a coherent...
Furcifer major
First description: (Brygoo, 1971) Origin of the species name: The French zoologist Édouard-Raoul Brygoo described the species at the Institute Pasteur in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He considered it to be a subspecies of the carpet...
Furcifer minor
First descriptions: (Günther, 1879) Origin of the species name: The German zoologist Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, then director of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum of London (Great Britain), received a...
Furcifer nicosiai
First description: Jesu, Mattioli & Schimmenti, 1999 Origin of the species name: The three Italian biologists Riccardo Jesu, Fabio Mattioli, and Giovanni Schimmenti from the Aquarium Genoa (Italy) dedicated the species to Guido Nicosia,...
Cleaning and disinfection
Everyone in the terrarium hobby has already experienced it: You painstakingly set up a beautiful terrarium, but do not take it so exactly with the quarantine and put the newly acquired chameleon in the...
Furcifer oustaleti
First description: (Mocquard, 1894) Origin of the species name: The zoologist François Mocquard of the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) received chameleons in the 1890s from M. Catat, the entomologist Charles Alluaud and...
Furcifer pardalis
First description: (Cuvier, 1829) Origin of the species name: The French zoologist and paleontologist Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron Cuvier founded the largest anatomical collection in Europe at the University of Paris (France)....
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