Calumma boettgeri

Calumma boettgeri
At Amber Mountain National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia
Infraorder:	Iguania
Family:	Chamaeleonidae
Subfamily:	Chamaeleoninae
Genus:	Calumma
Species:	C. boettgeri
Binomial name
Calumma boettgeri (Boulenger, 1888)[1]
Synonyms
Chamaeleon boettgeri Boulenger, 1888 Chamaeleon linotus L. Müller, 1924 Chameleo boettgeri — Mertens, 1966 Calumma boettgeri — Klaver & Böhme, 1986[2]

Calumma boettgeri, commonly known as Boettger's chameleon^[1] or the blue-nosed chameleon, is a chameleon species endemic to northern Madagascar, and common in the forests of Nosy Be.^[3]

Etymology

The specific name, boettgeri, is in honor of German herpetologist Oskar Boettger.^[1]

Galery

• Calumma boettgeri at Amber Mountain National Park
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References

1. 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. (Calumma boettgeri, p. 29).
2. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1888. Descriptions of two new Chamæleons from Nossi Bé, Madagascar. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Series 6, 1: 22-23 + Plate II. ("Chamæleon Bœttgeri ", new species, p. 23 + Plate II, figure 3).
• Glaw F, Vences M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Second edition. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag/Serpents Tale. 480 pp. ISBN 978-3929449013.
• Klaver C, Böhme W. 1986. Phylogeny and Classification of the Chamaeleonodae (Sauria), with special reference to hemipenis morphology. Bonn. zool. Monogr. 22: 1-64. (Calumma boettgeri, new combination).