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Pygmy Stump Tailed Chameleon

Brookesia peyrierasi Brygoo & Domergue 1974

Brookesia peyrierasi

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Brookesia peyrierasi is a species of diminutive chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to north-eastern Madagascar. It is known commonly as Peyrieras's pygmy chameleon, named after the herpetologist André Peyriéras.[2]

Similar species

A 1999 paper in the Journal of Zoology disputed a 1995 paper which considered this species and B. tuberculata to be the same species as B. minima. The later paper discussed the same details as the first – subtle morphological differences in the hemipenises of the respective species and determined they were not conspecific. They also found differences in the arrangement of head crests and in minute spines above the eyes.[3]

Habitat

The natural habitat of B. peyrierasi is forest.[1]

Reproduction

B. peyrierasi is oviparous.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Andreone F [in Italian], Andriamazava A, Anjeriniaina M, Glaw F, Jenkins RKB, Rabibisoa N, Rakotomalala D, Randrianantoandro JC, Randrianiriana J, Randrianizahana H, Ratsoavina F, Robsomanitrandrasana E (2014). "Brookesia peyrierasi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T172795A62660091. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T172795A62660091.en. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Brookesia peyrierasi, p. 205).
  3. ^ Glaw F, Vences M, Ziegler T, Böhme W, Köhler J (1999). "Specific distinctness and biogeography of the dwarf chameleons Brookesia minima, B. peyrierasi and B. tuberculata (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae): evidence from hemipenial and external morphology". [1] Journal of Zoology 247 (2): 225-238.
  4. ^ Species Brookesia peyrierasi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
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Brookesia peyrierasi: Brief Summary

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Brookesia peyrierasi is a species of diminutive chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to north-eastern Madagascar. It is known commonly as Peyrieras's pygmy chameleon, named after the herpetologist André Peyriéras.

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