{"id":7848,"date":"2019-03-07T20:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/brookesia-karchei-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:18:42","slug":"brookesia-tedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-tedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia tedi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/h4>\n

Scherz, K\u00f6hler, Rakotoarison, Glaw and Vences, 2019 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Mark D. Scherz and Frank Glaw from the State Zoological Collection Munich (Germany), J\u00f6rn K\u00f6hler from the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Germany), Miguel Vences from the Zoological Institute of the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and Andolalao Rakotoarison from the University of Antananarivo (Madagascar) named this species after the herpetologist Ted M. Townsend from the University of San Diego (USA). Townsend has already contributed to several scientific publications about Brookesia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia tedi<\/em> occurs sympatrically with Brookesia karchei<\/em> in Marojejy national park in the northeast of Madagascar. It lives similar to its larger relative at tree roots, in foliage and near mossy stones on the ground. We were able to find Brookesia tedi<\/em> between Camp Marojejya and Camp Simpona before its actual description. The animals don’t occur lower than 1200 m.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

This species remains very small with a total length of just 30 mm. Along the back, the animals carry a row of eight to ten latero-vertebral spines, which do not continue on the tail. They have a characteristic pelvic spine on both sides of the hip. Brookesia tedi<\/em> is very inconspicuous in color. The body can show different shades of brown and black spots on the body as well as lines behind the eye.<\/p>\n

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Young Brookesia tedi<\/em> on a human finger in Marojejy<\/p><\/div>\n

Brookesia tedi<\/em>\u00a0can be distinguished quite well from Brookesia karchei,<\/em> which occurs in the same habitat and is only slightly larger: Brookesia karchei<\/em> has clearer supraocular cones, in Brookesia tedi<\/em> the head shape is rather round, similar to that of Brookesia peryrierasi<\/em>. Furthermore, B. karchei<\/em> has spines on the tail, B. tedi<\/em> does not have these.<\/p>\n

Good to know:<\/h4>\n

This species is part of the minima<\/em> group, which includes the smallest chameleons of the world.<\/p>\n

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