{"id":10070,"date":"2021-02-06T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/brookesia-confidens-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:17:35","slug":"brookesia-ramanantsoai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-ramanantsoai\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia ramanantsoai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

Brygoo & Domergue, 1975 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Origin of the species name:<\/h4>\n

\u00c9douard-Raoul Brygoo (later working at the Natural History Museum in Paris, France) and Charles Antoine Domergue of the then Institut Pasteur in Antananarivo, Madagascar dedicated this chameleon species to the zoologist Guy Ramanantsoa. Ramanantsoa worked at the University of Antananarivo and also dealt with chameleons at times. He had described the species Calumma ambreense<\/a><\/em> a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Distribution:<\/h4>\n
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Brookesia ramanantsoai<\/em> can be found in the eastern highlands of Madagascar. Originally these small chameleons are known from the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, but we have never been able to observe them there. However, only 25 km east of Andasibe is the Vohimana reserve. There you have much better chances to spot Brookesia ramanantsoai<\/em>. Also west of Andasibe, in some small forest patches near Mandraka, the species is resident. Not far from Mandraka is Lake Mantasoa, near where the species was first found. The entire distribution range of Brookesia ramanantsoai<\/em> is relatively high, at about 1000 to 1300 m above sea level.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia ramanantsoai<\/em> belongs to the minima<\/em> group and is accordingly small. From the tip of the nose to the tail it measures just 41 to 44 mm. Instead of a pelvic shield, they carry only two pelvic spines. In the anterior half of the body, there are two better developed latero-vertebral tubercles, the others are barely developed. Purely visually, the species is indistinguishable from Brookesia dentata<\/em>, but research is still lacking here. Genetically the two species are different and also occur in two completely different habitats.<\/p>\n

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