{"id":216,"date":"2014-01-01T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=216"},"modified":"2025-02-09T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:24:39","slug":"calumma-ambreense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/calumma-ambreense\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumma ambreense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(Ramanantsoa, 1974)<\/p>\n

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

The zoologist Guy A. Ramanantsoa of the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar, named the species after its origin, the Amber Mountain. Originally described as a subspecies of Calumma oshaughnessyi<\/em>, the former subspecies name ambreense<\/em> was preserved when Frank Glaw from the State Zoological Collection Munich (Germany) and Miguel Vences from the Zoological Institute of the TU Braunschweig (Germany) raised the species to species status in 2007. Another species called Calumma amber<\/em> was also already present.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Calumma ambreense<\/em> is an inhabitant of the rainforests of Amber Mountain national park. You can only find it in elevations between 600 and 1200 meters above sea level. The species mainly live on trees between one and a half to ten meters in height. They prefer very high, slender trees overgrown with ferns and moss (like everything in Amber Mountain). Astonishingly, we have found some of these also around the campground of Amber Mountain in pine trees. At the night, these chameleons are – like almost all species – brighter coloured, and thus easy to find with a torch in big trees. Even then they mostly sit well above 2 m in height. During the daytime, it is more difficult to find this species – although they are rather big, they are well camouflaged. Young Calumma ambreense<\/em> of few days of age often still sleep on very thin plants very close to the ground.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

These chameleons count among the large chameleon species due to their size from 40 to 55 cm. Like in all Calumma<\/em> species, the helmet is rather high, and they have very small, hardly recognizable occipital lobes. There is hardly a dorsal and ventral ridge, and there are no enlarged scales. Males have a greyish-green color with a broad, white lateral stripe and dark bands, and short nose appendages. The females lack any nose appendage but are greener and sometimes yellowish colored. Both genders may have bright green and blue patterns on the head.<\/p>\n