Endangered
Calumma gallus
Calumma gallus
The lance-nosed chameleon, also known as a blade chameleon, is endemic to eastern Madagascar.
The chameleon
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
This chameleon is found in eastern Madagascar, in several areas among them Ambavaniasy, Ampasimbe, Andekaleka, Betampona, Ile aux Prunes, Karianga, Lokomby, Mahanoro, Manombo, Vohidrazana and Zahamena. The lance-nosed chameleon, also known as a blade chameleon, is endemic to eastern Madagascar.
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
Calumma gallus 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 Calumma gallus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2934425. 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.
