{"id":445,"date":"2014-09-04T23:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=445"},"modified":"2024-11-15T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:36:59","slug":"lokalform-mahavelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/lokalform-mahavelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Local form Mahavelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Distribution of the local form Mahavelona:
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Mahavelona (former French Foulpointe) is located on Madagascar’s east coast in region Toamasina. With approximately 20.000 inhabitants, it is a larger city that is directly at the Indian Ocean and thus serves as a local recreation area for the people of Toamasina (Tamatave). Besides the beach, there is much secondary vegetation, some rice fields, and clove plantations, but the city mainly lives on fishery and native tourism. From Toamasina, you can reach Mahavelona via RN5 within two to four hours (about 50 km). The road has become remarkably worse in the last two years. In the north, this local form is bounded by the river Onibe, which flows into the Indian Ocean. To the south, a smaller river delimits the local form of Toamasina (Tamatave).<\/p>\n

Appearance of the local form:<\/h4>\n

Males here are grey-blueish to almost white with slight, grey-blue stripes. When stressed, these specimen can become almost white with deeply blue stripes.<\/p>\n

Weight table<\/h4>\n

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Gewicht = weight in grams, Kopf-Rumpf-L\u00e4nge = snout-vent-length in cm, Weibchen = females, M\u00e4nnchen = males<\/p>\n

Since 2015, we have been measuring the weights of chameleons found by us in Madagascar, as far as the animals (and our scales) participate. In the long term, we aim to obtain an average weight in relation to snout-vent-length (measured from the tip of the nose to the cloaca) for each species from as many measurements as possible. It is important to know that all weights were measured towards the end of the rainy season (= best food supply), so these should be maximum weights on Madagascar<\/strong>. Triangular symbols in females mean not pregnant, round symbols mean pregnant. In Furcifer pardalis,<\/em> contrary to our original assumption, it has so far turned out that there are no serious differences in the ratio of SVL to weight between the individual local forms.<\/p>\n

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