{"id":1205,"date":"2014-09-11T20:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:40:15","slug":"brookesia-karchei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-karchei\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia karchei"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1970<\/p>\n

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

\u00c9douard-Raoul Brygoo (later working at the Natural History Museum in Paris, France), Charles Pierre Blanc and Charles Antoine Domergue from the then Institut Pasteur in Antananarivo, Madagascar dedicated the species to their colleague Jean-Paul Karche. Karche was a French geologist and worked at the University of Antsiranana (Diego Suarez) in northern Madagascar at the time.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia karchei<\/em> mainly occurs in Marojejy national park in northeast Madagascar, where it prefers a humid leaf layer between rocks and moss as habitat. We could find it several times between Camp Mantella and Camp Marojejya – which is not easy with a chameleon of this tiny size!<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

The dwarfs become about 50 mm long, females stay a little smaller. Along the back, each side has a row of twelve to thirteen enlarged, spiny scales that are not continued on tail (in contrast to some other very similar Brookesia<\/em> species). Above noses and eyes, there is a small bony appendage, otherwise, these chameleons look rather unsuspicious. They are beige to light brown.<\/p>\n

Good to know:<\/h4>\n

This species is part of the minima<\/em> group, which includes the smallest chameleons of the world.<\/p>\n

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