Calumma parsonii Green Giant

Calumma parsonii is a species of chameleon native to Madagascar, primarily found in the rainforests and montane forests of eastern Madagascar. The lowland population on Ile St. Marie (Nosy Boraha) seems to be extinct or near extinction same as many original populations on the eastern slopes of the central Malagasy massive.

Despite of the fact, the Parson's chameleon is the largest chameleon of all and is notoriously known, we have very little data about its natural history, including its systematic. It is well known, there are several populations differing in size, development of dorsal crest and coloration; they live alopatrically, and there is no known genetic exchange amongst the forms. They have, however, not been formally, described, yet, with the exception of the dwarf created form from Perinet: Calumma (parsonii) cristifer.

The depicted form C.(p.p.) "GREEN GIANT" from highlands of the Masoala peninsula and the northern shore of the Bay of Antongil as far south as Voloina, is one if the ratest and keast studied. It is well pritected in the remote and almost inaccessible central highlands of the Masoala peninsula.