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Furcifer voeltzkowi was described as Chamaeleon voeltzkowi by Boöttger in 1893, named after Alfred Voeltzkow (1860 – 1947), German zoologist and botanist, who collected the type specimen at the type locality: Antema, Bembatuka Bay, Western Madagascar.

The spectacular birthing process of chameleons begins in the morning when the female basks in the sun, raising her body temperature sufficiently. She then deposits her eggs, encased in transparent membranes, around some rough twigs. Once the membranes rupture, the young chameleons hatch. They are fully independent from birth and begin to disperse...

Presented with a model of a predator bird (left), the Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris), chameleons (Bradypodion taeniabronchum) colour-matched their backgrounds much more closely than with a model of a snake (right). The Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) has poorer colour vision than the shrike, and therefore, it produced less vivid changes in the...

William R. Branch and Krystal A. Tolley. 2010. A New Species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Nadzikambia) from Mount Mabu, central Mozambique. African Journal of Herpetology. 59:157-172. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2010.516275

Pia J. Schucht, Peter T. Rühr, Benedikt Geier, Frank Glaw and Markus Lambertz. 2020. Armored with Skin and Bone: A Combined Histological and μCT‐Study of the Exceptional Integument of the Antsingy Leaf Chameleon Brookesia perarmata (Angel, 1933). Journal of Morphology. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21135

Daniel F. Hughes, Krystal A. Tolley, Mathias Behangana, Wilber Lukwago, Michele Menegon, J. Maximilian Dehling, Jan Stipala, Colin R. Tilbury, Arshad M. Khan and Chifundera Kusamba. 2018. Cryptic Diversity in Rhampholeon boulengeri (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), A Pygmy Chameleon from the Albertine Rift Biodiversity Hotspot. Molecular Phylogenetics and...

Böhme, Wolfgang 1997. Eine neue Chamäleonart aus der Calumma gastrotaenia-Verwandtschaft Ost-Madagaskars (A new species of chameleon from the Calumma gastrotaenia-group from eastern Madagascar). Herpetofauna. 19 (107): 5-10.

We describe Calumma vohibola sp. nov., a morphologically distinct chameleonspecies of the Calumma nasutum species group from littoral forest fragments of the northcentral east coast of Madagascar. Males and females of this species differ from all other species of the Calumma nasutum group by an almost absent rostral appendage, by acharacteristic...

During fieldwork carried out in January-February 1995 in the Strict Nature Reserve No. 9 (western Madagascar), a new species of dwarf chameleon (genus Brookesia) was discovered on the western slopes of the Antsingy forest. The inaccessible habitat of this new taxon consists of dense subhumid tropophile forest growing among the limestone blocks...

Fig 4. Live adult representatives for each species in the Furcifer verrucosus and F. oustaleti complexes. Letters correspond to clades on all other figures in this paper; males (m) on left and females (F) on right.
(a) F. verrucosus clade A (m: Fort Dauphin; f: Tsiaroa-Ampasy), (b) F. verrucosus clade B (m: Mangoky River; f: Ankatsakantsa Sud), (...

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