Missing Step (by SnowPoring)
Parson’s Chameleon (by Giovanni Mari)
![rhamphotheca:
Calumma vohibola • a new chameleon species (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) from the littoral forests of eastern Madagascar
[Herpetology • 2011]
We describe Calumma vohibola sp. nov., a morphologically distinct chameleon
species 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… We suspect that C. vohibola might be restricted to a rather small and fragmented distribution range within the last littoral forest fragments along the coast. Owing to the unsolved taxonomic situation of the C. nasutum group, no reliable distribution data of any member of this group are available at present, and hence we cannot ascertain whether the extent of occurrence of C. vohibola is indeed as restricted as suspected. Intensive surveys and field studies are necessary to clarify the distribution limits of this new species and to assess its conservation status reliably…
(read more: http://www.mvences.de/p/p1/Vences_A220.pdf)
(via: NovaTaxa)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbxb6iqg6j1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg)
Calumma vohibola • a new chameleon species (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) from the littoral forests of eastern Madagascar
[Herpetology • 2011]
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… We suspect that C. vohibola might be restricted to a rather small and fragmented distribution range within the last littoral forest fragments along the coast. Owing to the unsolved taxonomic situation of the C. nasutum group, no reliable distribution data of any member of this group are available at present, and hence we cannot ascertain whether the extent of occurrence of C. vohibola is indeed as restricted as suspected. Intensive surveys and field studies are necessary to clarify the distribution limits of this new species and to assess its conservation status reliably…(via: NovaTaxa)
Cape Dwarf Chameleon (by mallix)
Chameleon (by wwarby)
Cape Dwarf Chameleon (by Lehva)
Illustration by Steven Toang
Purple Chameleon by RAEvN on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Mixed Media Printing Process 30” x 22”
Cosmo :)
