Endangered
Mount Mulanje Pygmy Chameleon
Rhampholeon platyceps
Mount Mulanje Pygmy Chameleon is a snake.
The pygmy chameleon
It was first described by Albert Günther in 1893.
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
Mount Mulanje Pygmy Chameleon, the Mount Mulanje pygmy chameleon or Malawi stumptail chameleon, is a chameleon found in Malawi and Mozambique.
GBIF currently lists 165 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
Mount Mulanje Pygmy 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 Mount Mulanje Pygmy Chameleon — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3429261 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.
