Brookesia minima
First description: Boettger, 1893 Origin of the species name: Palaeontologist Oskar Böttger, then curator of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), named this chameleon species after its body size. Minima is Latin...
Calumma nasutum
First description: (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) Origin of the species name: Zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril, then head of herpetology at the Natural History Museum in Paris (France), named this chameleon species after its...
Calumma gallus
First description: (Günther, 1877) Origin of the species name: The German zoologist Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, then director of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum in London (Great Britain), described this...
Calumma peyrierasi
First description: (Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1974) Origin of the species name: Édouard-Raoul Brygoo, Charles Pierre Blanc and Charles Antoine Domergue from the former Pasteur Institute in Antananarivo, Madagascar, dedicated the species to the...
Palleon lolontany
First description: (Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1995) Origin of the species name: Christopher J. Raxworthy from the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA) and Ronald A. Nussbaum from the University of Michigan, Ann...
Seminar series ‘The chameleon as a patient’
In 2026, we will be organising an extensive lecture series for the first time in cooperation with mVet Exotenmedizin. The topic is, of course, the chameleon as a patient. The entire lecture series will...
Chameleons on the Red List of threatened species
Many people are familiar with the ‘red list’ of threatened animal species. Many Malagasy chameleon species are part of it. On our website, we have included a reference to the endangered status of each...
Brookesia nofy
First description: Rakotoarison, Hasiniaina, Glaw and Vences, 2024 Origin of the species name: The biologist Andolalao Rakotoarison named the species after the Malagasy word for dream. On the one hand, this fits its origin,...
Calumma vohibola
First description: Gehring, Ratsoavina, Vences and Glaw, 2011 Origin of the species name: Philip-Sebastian Gehring and Miguel Vences from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina from the University of Antananarivo (Madagascar),...
Local form Masoala
Distribution of the local form Masoala: Masoala National Park is located on the east coast of Madagascar on the peninsula of the same name. The rainforest here reaches directly to the sea – the...
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