Endangered
Usambara Stumptail Chameleon
Rhampholeon temporalis
Usambara Stumptail Chameleon is a pygmy chameleon in the family Chamaeleonidae — Rhampholeon temporalis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Tanzania.
Appearance
It is brownish-brown in color, sometimes tending to gray, it generally has one to three darker stripes, in the shape of a comma, on the sides, as well as sometimes large dark dots.
Range and habitat
Usambara Stumptail Chameleon is recorded from Tanzania.
GBIF currently lists 145 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
The male courts the female by following her and making regular nodding movements.
In crisis
Usambara Stumptail 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 Usambara Stumptail Chameleon — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3429262 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.
