{"id":906,"date":"2014-09-05T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madcham.com\/wordpress\/?p=906"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:46:37","slug":"furcifer-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madcham.de\/en\/furcifer-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Furcifer minor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First descriptions:\"IUCN<\/a><\/h4>\n

(G\u00fcnther, 1879) \"\"<\/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), received a small collection of chameleons in the 1870s. They came from the British missionary George Andrew Shaw from Fianarantsoa. G\u00fcnther described three chameleons of the collection as a new species. He considered them to be very close relatives of Furcifer bifidus<\/em>, but thought the species was much smaller. Therefore he gave the new species the Latin name minor<\/em>, in English “small”.<\/p>\n

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Distribution:<\/h4>\n

This chameleon species inhabits the cooler areas of the central highlands. It settles the region from Ambositra to Ivato and Itremo which is approximately 230 km south of the capital Antananarivo. We have found these animals in papaya plantings and in the sparse residues of primary forest. They are by far not as adapted to secondary vegetation as for example Furcifer lateralis<\/em>. Overall, these animals are difficult to see and a rare finding.<\/p>\n

Appearance and size:<\/h4>\n

This very attractively colored chameleon species belongs to the middle-sized chameleons and reaches sizes of 16 cm in females and up to 23 cm total length in males. Males have two noticeable nose appendages with serrated ridges and a beige-grey or brown coloration with three diagonal bright stripes at the posterior part of the body. Females are much more colorful with a green color pattern and violet spots. During gravidity, females become even more lovely colored and often show their stress coloration: Yellow stripes on almost black (dark green) background with violet spots on the flanks and red dots on the head. Both genders may have an indistinct parietal, lateral and temporal crest. The dorsal crest is only visible in the anterior part of the body with single spines. Between arms and flanks, these chameleons have two spots surrounded by black. In stressed females, those glow blueish-red. The ventral crest is few developed but has a uniformly white color.<\/p>\n

Reproduction:<\/h4>\n

These chameleons lay 10 to 15 eggs which survive a temperature drop to 15 \u00b0C and lower during incubation. After 190 to 230 days, the small chameleon babies hatch. In captivity, this species is bred from time to time.<\/p>\n

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