{"id":1600,"date":"2014-09-14T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madcham.com\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:16:36","slug":"calumma-globifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/calumma-globifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumma globifer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

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

The German zoologist Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf G\u00fcnther, then director of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum of London (Great Britain), borrowed the name of this chameleon species from Latin. Globus<\/em> means translated as “sphere”. G\u00fcnther was alluding to the strongly rounded nasal processes of the males, which appeared to him to be very spherically rounded.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Calumma globifer <\/em>has its distribution area in the residual rainforests of the central highlands. You can find this chameleon species east of Antananarivo in the area around Mandraka and north of Antananarivo in the forests of Anjozorobe. Both habitats are threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture, and both are hardly protected and thus disappearing every year more.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

With a total length of 31 to 40 cm, these chameleons belong to the large chameleons. Males have two nose appendages and small, hardly visible occipital loves (only one millimeter). Neither belly nor back or throat has spines, but the whole scalation is heterogeneous. Coloration is varying and has different shades of green with dark stripes or a dark lateral stripe. Male Calumma globifer<\/em> have a whitish-yellow pattern on their throats.<\/p>\n