Endangered
Forked Chameleon
Calumma furcifer
Forked Chameleon is a snake.
The chameleon
It was first described by Vaillant ug Grandidier in 1880.
Chameleons hunt by sight and a projectile tongue. Body size in this family runs from leaf-cryptic dwarfs to larger canopy animals.
Range and habitat
Forked Chameleon, the "fork-nosed" chameleon, is a chameleon found in Madagascar, in the western Indian Ocean.
GBIF currently lists 49 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
A chameleon rocks, aims, and shoots the tongue. Many dwarf species live in low vegetation or leaf litter, not only in high canopy.
In crisis
Forked Chameleon is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Forked Chameleon — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2934424 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
