{"id":2422,"date":"2015-04-23T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:16:32","slug":"lokalform-yellow-lip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-yellow-lip\/","title":{"rendered":"Color variation “yellow lip”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution:<\/h4>\n
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Ranomafana national park is approximately 420 km south-east of the capital Antananarivo in Madagascar’s southern highlands. You need at least one day to get there via RN7. The village of the same name lies in a long valley, and some small villages surround the national park. The park itself consists of primary rainforest, while the surrounding areas mainly comprise banana plantations, cleared slopes, and secondary vegetation. Only a few fragments of the original rainforest remain outside the national park, and Calumma parsonii parsonii <\/em>prefers exactly these areas. This color variation is difficult to find inside the national park, you have to go by car a little further in the direction of Ifanadiana – most times. The habitat is also used by Furcifer balteatus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

Calumma parsonii parsonii<\/em> occurring around and in Ranomafana are called “yellow lip”. Males are blue to turquoise colored with clearly contrasted yellow lips and a yellow nose appendage. The casque can show yellow accents, too. Like in all other Parson’s color variations, the females are bright green. In Ranomafana, we have found extraordinarily big animals, with a total length of about 70 cm. Those are surely among the largest chameleons ever found in Madagascar.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

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Gewicht = weight, Kopf-Rumpf-L\u00e4nge = snout-vent-length, Weibchen = female, M\u00e4nnchen = male, Jungtier = juvenile<\/p>\n

Since 2015, we measure weights of all chameleons found by us in Madagascar, as long as the animals (and our scales) cooperate. Until now, we have only a few weights yet, but on a long-term base, we want to get a preferably high number to get an average weight with regard to snout-vent-length (measured from the tip of the snout to the cloaca) for each species. That means our up to date tables cannot tell that much yet<\/em>, but the might be a first reference. It is important to know that all weights were taken at the end of the rainy season (= best food range), so we suggest these may be maximal weights of these animals in Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols for females mean not gravid, round symbols mean gravid.<\/p>\n

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