Endangered
Transkei Dwarf Chameleon
Bradypodion caffer
The Transkei dwarf chameleon or Pondo dwarf chameleon is a chameleon endemic to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
The chameleon
Transkei Dwarf Chameleon is a chameleon in the family Chamaeleonidae — Bradypodion caffer.
Range and habitat
The Transkei dwarf chameleon or Pondo dwarf chameleon is a chameleon endemic to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
The species occurs in the Silaka Nature Reserve, but is not known from other protected areas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Transkei dwarf chameleon are ovoviviparous.
In crisis
This habitat is deteriorating because of overgrazing by domestic livestock, clearing of land for agriculture, fuel-wood collection, invasion by introduced plants, and urbanization.
Transkei Dwarf 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 Transkei Dwarf Chameleon, Wikidata item Q2923517. 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.
