{"id":2565,"date":"2015-05-20T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T14:52:27","slug":"brookesia-brunoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-brunoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia brunoi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

Crottini, Miralles, Glaw, Harris, Lima & Vences, 2012 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Angelica Crottini from the University of Porto (Portugal) named this chameleon after her partner Bruno Grassi. In addition, the word bruno<\/em> also means “brown” in Italian, which matches the color of the leaf chameleon.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia brunoi<\/em> lives solely in Anja Community Reserve, a communally led protected area at the edge of the southern highlands near the city Ambalavao. It thus belongs to few leaf chameleons that have settled in dry areas. The region is at an elevation of 950 m above sea level and very rocky. The small residues of forests are mainly restricted to the mentioned reserve. The forest is rather dry here, and in many places, there has been wild ginger introduced. The area around Ambalavao is the coldest region of Madagascar – during the dry season, temperatures usually become lower than 10\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

It takes some time and patience to find these animals. In 2012, a similar-looking leaf chameleon was found in Ambovombe in Madagascar’s deep south, but it could not be identified as Brookesia brunoi<\/em> cleary. It remains open whether the species might occur further south, too.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia brunoi <\/em>wears a characteristic helmet that is decorated with four spines at each side and continued above the eyes. Between the nose and eyes, each side has a little bulge. Along the dorsum, there nine latero-vertebral spines that end up in a diamond-shaped, characteristic pelvic shield and continue only indistinctly on the tail. The venter has no enlarged scales in contrast to similar species, and Brookesia brunoi<\/em> has no dorsal ridge. All animals we have found were uniformly beige-brown colored. The following pictures show young specimens.<\/p>\n