{"id":1624,"date":"2018-05-18T13:38:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madcham.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2025-11-15T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:44:09","slug":"brookesia-vadoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-vadoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia vadoni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

Brygoo & Domergue, 1968 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

\u00c9douard-Raoul Brygoo and Charles Antoine Domergue were brought two Brookesia vadoni<\/em> to the Institut Pasteur in Antananarivo in 1967 by the two entomologists Jean-Pierre L\u00e9opold Vadon and Jean-Marie Betsch. The animals had originally been collected by Andr\u00e9 Peyri\u00e9ras in Masoala. The two leaf chameleons lived for two months before they died due to a lack of knowledge about keeping and feeding conditions. In 1968, Peyri\u00e9ras sent two more animals to the capital of Madagascar. Brygoo and Domergue, who later both worked at the Natural History Museum in Paris (France), finally named the species after Vadon. Vadon lived in Maroantsetra since 1934 and became a French consul. He stayed in Madagascar until the end of his life and described various insect species.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia vadoni<\/em> occurs in northeast Madagascar in tiny areas in Marojejy, Anjanaharibe-Sud, and Masoala national park. Almost all distribution areas are completely isolated from each other. They live in the foliage of the rainforest. We have been able to find this species in Marojejy, in very inaccessible canyons on an extremely limited area of less than 100 m\u00b2. Despite the existing knowledge about the habitat of Brookesia vadoni<\/em>, it is unbelievably difficult to find this species in the dense, wet leaf litter. It is unknown how many specimens still exist. In Masoala, only a few individual of this species has been found for years.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n
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Brookesia vadoni,<\/em> sitting on a human index finger for size comparison<\/p><\/div>\n

With a length of 57 to 58 mm, this is a middle-sized species among leaf chameleons. It has conspicuous bright colors, and no other Brookesia wears a similar color range. Brookesia vadoni<\/em> males have yellow and blue spots with various shades. Additionally, both genders have nine latero-vertebral spines that are continued on the tail. They have tubercles on their chins and a distinct cone between nose and eyes, as well as well developed supraocular cones. The population in Marojejy has yellow heads, whereas the specimen in Masoala has green colored heads. The females are usually a little more inconspicuous, they wear a dark brown with yellow, arrow-like stripes on the sides. However, we have also found single females, which were in no way inferior in color to the males.<\/p>\n

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Colour and the spiny look are extremely extraordinary among leaf chameleons, all others are brown, beige or maximally slightly yellow.<\/p>\n

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