Endangered
Globe-horned chameleon
Calumma globifer
The globe-horned chameleon or flat-casqued chameleon is a large species of chameleon endemic to isolated pockets of humid primary forest in eastern and south eastern Madagascar.
Appearance
Colour variations include red-brown, yellow, black, white, and green.
Range and habitat
The globe-horned chameleon or flat-casqued chameleon is a large species of chameleon endemic to isolated pockets of humid primary forest in eastern and south 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
Globe-horned 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 Globe-horned chameleon — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q146936. 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.
