{"id":841,"date":"2018-05-18T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-07-13T20:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:42:29","slug":"calumma-oshaughnessyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/calumma-oshaughnessyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumma oshaughnessyi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(G\u00fcnther, 1881) \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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

The German zoologist Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf G\u00fcnther, then Director of the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum of London (Great Britain), gave only a few species names in honour of specific individuals. He made an exception for this chameleon species, which he dedicated to his English friend and colleague Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. O’Shaughnessy was already employed by the Natural History Museum at the age of 19 and remained there until his death at the age of only 37 in January 1881, shortly before the description of Calumma oshaughnessyi<\/em> was completed.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

The distribution of this chameleon species reaches from Ranomafana national park to the northern edges of Andohahela national park in south-east Madagascar. They prefer to live in dense evergreen rainforests where it is always extremely humid. Calumma oshaughnessyi<\/em> loves deep primary forests overgrown with ferns and moss. You will hardly find them in secondary vegetation. During night excursions, you can see them in the rainforest at the ends of branches at heights of 2-4 meters.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

With a total length of almost 40 cm, Calumma oshaughnessyi <\/em>belongs to the large representatives of the colorful dragons. The males have two big nose appendages. Besides their green-greyish colors, they also have blue and yellow accents in the gular area and on the flanks. The head and shoulder parts are grey-whitish mainly in males, partially with, partially without a turquoise green throat. Females lack the characteristic nose appendages. Both genders have small but distinct occipital lobes. Some individuals of Calumma oshaughnessyi<\/em> show some enlarged spines at the back, but most specimens completely lack them.<\/p>\n