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)....
Furcifer petteri
First description: (Brygoo & Domergue, 1966) Origin of the species name: In 1966 the zoologists Édouard-Raoul Brygoo and Charles Antoine Domergue from the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) received several reptiles. They had...
How to clean lime deposits on glass
Chameleon owners with extremely hard tap water at home will know the problem: After some weeks of running your sprinkler system, all glass panes are whitishly sprinkled with ugly lime deposits. But there are...
Furcifer rhinoceratus
First description: (Gray, 1845) Origin of the species name: The English zoologist John Edward Gray described the species very briefly and named it after the Latin rhinoceros. By this, he meant the different pronounced...
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