Please identify
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Justin Carl
Avid Member
A gravid chameleon......
Chris Anderson
Dr. House of Chameleons
It isn't F. minor. She doesn't have the two spots on the flanks behind the head that is indicative of them. She looks like a carpet (F. lateralis) to me. Clearer pics would solidify the ID. There is virtually no chance of it actually being one but the coloration alone almost looks like a gravid female F. labordi. I would have to say F. lateralis though.
Chris
Chris
Eric Adrignola
Avid Member
Looks like a pic in my Necas book. I was reading it last night. I'll look aain when I get home.
RhettusMaximus
New Member
carpet
def. looks like a carpet to me, but again it is very blurry.
def. looks like a carpet to me, but again it is very blurry.
Kent67
Retired Moderator
Wow, I sure thought it was a Furcifer labordi at first too, but in receptive color since gravid females turn black? Although the pics are blurry, she doesn't appear to have the small rostral process that female F. labordi would have so I'm going with carpet as well. Beautiful cham, nonetheless.
Tokoloshe
Avid Member
Looks like a Furcifer Lateralis Major.
Fat little pigs!
Try taking some addidional pics form further away if necessary, in order to get it in focus, shoot at high resolution and then crop it. Do you have a male as well? If so it will help if you post a pic of him.
Nice cham, good luck-don't overfeed this species they will eat, and eat and eat...did I mention they like to eat?
T.
Fat little pigs!
Try taking some addidional pics form further away if necessary, in order to get it in focus, shoot at high resolution and then crop it. Do you have a male as well? If so it will help if you post a pic of him.
Nice cham, good luck-don't overfeed this species they will eat, and eat and eat...did I mention they like to eat?
T.
AFH
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Trace
Captain Awesome
Chris can explain better than I, I'm sure; but CITES listed the Furcifer labordi as Appendix 2 in 1977 and the IUCN (red list) listed them as vulnerable in the wild in 2000. They have not been exported in many years.
Now I'm not sure how those particular specimens arrived in captivity; they could have been smuggled, they could have been collected and shipped as lateralis for instance, but no matter what, they don't belong in a plastic box. I'd rather see them in their natural habitat. That's the shame.
Trace
Now I'm not sure how those particular specimens arrived in captivity; they could have been smuggled, they could have been collected and shipped as lateralis for instance, but no matter what, they don't belong in a plastic box. I'd rather see them in their natural habitat. That's the shame.
Trace
Dankmeleon
New Member
i learn a new species everyday
Dankmeleon
New Member
the purple is lovely
Chris can explain better than I, I'm sure; but CITES listed the Furcifer labordi as Appendix 2 in 1977 and the IUCN (red list) listed them as vulnerable in the wild in 2000. They have not been exported in many years.
Now I'm not sure how those particular specimens arrived in captivity; they could have been smuggled, they could have been collected and shipped as lateralis for instance, but no matter what, they don't belong in a plastic box. I'd rather see them in their natural habitat. That's the shame.
Trace
Friend of mine found them in the market place and brought them to me with plastic box. Occasionally we can find lateralis in the market but this is first appear in the market. Any special attention to them? Now they are kept in reptile cage
Hate to break the bad new to you:https://www.chameleonforums.com/life-expectancy-8810/?highlight=labordi They only live 4 to 5 months total. What a shame
