{"id":876,"date":"2014-09-05T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:26:05","slug":"furcifer-balteatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/furcifer-balteatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Furcifer balteatus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First description:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(Dum\u00e9ril & Bibron, 1851)<\/p>\n

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

The zoologist Andr\u00e9 Marie Constant Dum\u00e9ril, then head of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Paris (France), together with his assistant Gabriel Bibron, named this chameleon species. Unfortunately, they did not mention where the name balteatus<\/em> comes from in the first description.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

This species exclusively lives in the mountain rainforests of Ranomafana and Ifanadiana. Sometimes they also climb in lush, high grown secondary vegetation. If you walk along the street in direction of the national park at night, you will find these animals sitting at the end of small branches of big trees. But you have to be a little lucky, it is not a very common species.<\/p>\n

Appearance & size:<\/h4>\n

With a total length of 45 cm, especially the males are quite impressive. They have two tapered nose appendages that slightly bow to the ceiling, the females have only two small humps instead. Both genders are green colored with a white stripe running diagonally over the body, they both have white lips and whitish-brown spots on the belly. When stressed, the puffed-up throat can be bright turquoise-blue. Furcifer balteatus<\/em> are easy to distinguish from other species by their body size, the special color pattern and the finding place. Young individuals are usually neon-green like the one pictured below.<\/p>\n