Mount d'Ambre leaf chameleon

Brookesia tuberculata

The Montagne d'Ambre leaf chameleon is a diminutive chameleon from far northern Madagascar.
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Naming

A 1999 paper in the ''Journal of Zoology'' disputed a 1995 paper which considered this species and ''B. peyrierasi'' to be the same species as ''B. minima''. The later paper discussed the same details as the first – subtle morphological differences in the hemipenises of the respective species and determined they were not conspecific. They also found differences in the arrangement of head crests and in minute spines above the eyes.

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Status: Vulnerable
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderSquamata
FamilyChamaeleonidae
GenusBrookesia
SpeciesB. tuberculata
Photographed in
Madagascar