Brookesia thieli
First description: Brygoo & Domergue, 1969 Origin of the species’ name: Édouard-Raoul Brygoo (later working at the Natural History Museum in Paris, France) and Charles Antoine Domergue of the then Institut Pasteur in Antananarivo,...
Brookesia tuberculata
First description: Mocquard, 1894 Origin of the species name: The zoologist François Mocquard of the Natural History Museum in Paris (France) borrowed the species name from the Latin tubercula, which means “many bumps”. In...
Calumma hilleniusi
First description: (Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1973) Origin of the species name: The Dutch herpetologist Dick Hillenius received his doctorate in 1959 on the genus Chamaeleo at the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam (Netherlands). At...
Calumma juliae
First description: Prötzel, Vences, Hawlitschek, Scherz, Ratsoavina & Glaw, 2018 Origin of the species name: David Prötzel from the State Zoological Collection Munich (Germany) dedicated the species to his girlfriend Julia Forster. Distribution:...
Calumma malthe
First description: (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), named Calumma...
Calumma marojezense
First description: (Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1970) Origin of the species name: The zoologists Édouard-Raoul Brygoo, Charles Pierre Blanc and Charles Antoine Domergue of the Institut Pasteur in Antananarivo, Madagascar, named the species after...
Calumma nasutum
First description: (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) Origin of the species name: The zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril, then head of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Paris (France), together with his assistant Gabriel...
Calumma oshaughnessyi
First description: (Günther, 1881) 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), gave only...
Calumma parsonii cristifer
First description: (Methuen & Hewitt, 1913) Origin of the species name: The English zoologist Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen, and the South African zoologist John Hewitt gave this subspecies of the Parsons Chameleon...
Calumma radamanus
First description: Mertens, 1933 Origin of the species name: The German biologist Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens, later director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Francfort (Germany), named this chameleon species...
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