{"id":790,"date":"2014-09-05T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-02-15T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:59:37","slug":"calumma-furcifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/calumma-furcifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumma furcifer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(Vaillant & Grandidier, 1880)<\/p>\n

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

The French zoologists L\u00e9on Louis Vaillant and Guillaume Grandidier worked together in the French Zoological Society on various publications. They named this chameleon species after the Latin furca<\/em> for “fork”. It denotes the characteristic nasal process of the males of Calumma furcifer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

Calumma furcifer<\/em> occurs in the east of the central highlands. You can find these animals about 25 km east of Andasibe national park in Vohidrazana. In this area, the primary forest is almost completely burned, and only some small areas with forest-like secondary vegetation have regrown. The chameleons live in slope regions near rivers that are difficult to access, probably since these terrains remained as of the last shelter due to its less attractive usability for firewood and grazing cattle. This residual habitat is massively threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture and will probably completely disappear in the next years. This chameleon is almost impossible to find yet. A second occurrence of this species is not far from Vohidrazana in the Vohimana reserve. However, the population in this rainforest seems to be very small, it is only very rarely found there.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

Males of Calumma furcifer<\/em> have a small furcated nose appendage that their species name is dedicated to. With a total length of 15 cm, they belong to the smaller or mid-sized chameleons. Their scales are grass green with an indistinct pale white lateral stripe that has two distinct white spots. The casque is flat and almost directly blends into the back. They have only a dorsal ridge with spines that have rather much distance to each other and do not continue on the tail.<\/p>\n