{"id":7928,"date":"2019-04-25T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/brookesia-antakarana-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:05:44","slug":"brookesia-ebenaui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/brookesia-ebenaui\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookesia ebenaui"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n\t\tCITES-Quoten<\/strong>
\n150 animals in 2016,
\n250 in 2017,
\n2018-2025 again 150 animals per year for legal export\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n

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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(Boettger, 1880) \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

The palaeontologist Oskar B\u00f6ttger, then curator of the Senckenberg Museum in Francfort (Germany) wrote the original description in 1880 – still in Latin, by the way. He named the species after Carl Ebenau. Carl Ebenau was the general agent of the German East African Society. Like B\u00f6ttger, he originally came from Francfort and in the 1880s worked as a merchant for the sale of export goods in Madagascar.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

This species lives in the north of Madagascar, where it populates different habitats. It can be found both in the rainforest of the Amber Mountain and in the much drier Montagne de Francais towards Antsiranana (Diego Suarez in French). The animals also live in the dry forest of Loky Manambato near Daraina, we have found them there as well as in the Montagne d’Ambre. With a lot of luck, one can also discover Brookesia ebenaui<\/em> on the island Nosy Be, but only in Lokobe National Park and the reserve of the same name, the last two remaining forest fragments on the island.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

Brookesia ebenaui<\/em> grows to a maximum length of 7 cm from the nose to the tip of the tail. Thus they remain clearly smaller than the Brookesia antakarana<\/em> which can be found in the same habitats and only somewhat smaller than Brookesia stumpffi<\/em>. The animals do not have a dorsal crest and also the pelvic shield is so little pronounced that one can hardly call it such. It is rather a somewhat larger tubercle on both sides. Along the backline, Brookesia ebenaui<\/em> carries exactly 10 lateral tubercles (thorn-shaped scales), which continue on the tail. Most of the chameleons of this species are dark brown. The animals from dry forests are in our experience a little more marbled.<\/p>\n