Adult female in natural habitat (top), juvenile on match head (bottom)
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Iguania
Family:
Chamaeleonidae
Genus:
Brookesia
Species:
B. micra
Binomial name
Brookesia micra
Glaw, Köhler, Townsend, & Vences, 2012
Brookesia micra, also known as the Nosy Hara leaf chameleon is a species of chameleons from the islet of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar.[1] At the time of its discovery, it was the smallest known chameleon and among the smallest reptiles, until the 2021 discovery of the even smaller B. nana. Adult B. micra can grow up to 29 mm (1.1 in) in length.[2]
^Davies, Ella (15 February 2012). "Tiny lizards found in Madagascar". BBC Nature. BBC. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
^Glaw, F.; Köhler, J. R.; Townsend, T. M.; Vences, M. (2012). Salamin, Nicolas (ed.). "Rivaling the World's Smallest Reptiles: Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar". PLOS ONE. 7 (2): e31314. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031314. PMC 3279364. PMID 22348069.
Brookesiamicra, also known as the Nosy Hara leaf chameleon is a species of chameleons from the islet of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar. At the...
which differs from species of the Brookesia minima group. New species is most similar to Brookesiamicra. Brookesia nana contain relatively large genital...
Chamaeleoninae. Under this classification, Brookesiinae included the genera Brookesia and Rhampholeon, as well as the genera later split off from them (Palleon...
and 15–16 mm (0.59–0.63 in) for male B. micra, though females are larger. In 2021, a new species of Brookesia, B. nana, was discovered, with a snout-vent...
Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar". PLoS ONE. 7 (2): e31314. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...
Region off the northwest coast of Madagascar. It is the habitat of Brookesiamicra, the smallest known chameleon. Since 2007, Nosy Hara has been part...
the suborder ranges from a few centimeters for chameleons such as Brookesiamicra and geckos such as Sphaerodactylus ariasae to nearly 3 m (10 ft) in...
are the Channel Island fox, extinct dwarf elephants of Crete, and Brookesiamicra, a minuscule chameleon from Madagascar. An noninsular example is the...
of Brookesia tuberculata (Mount d'Ambre leaf chameleon). It is just larger than Brookesiamicra. It looks identical to Brookesia desperata, Brookesia micra...
on over 200 descriptions of Madagascan taxa, such as the chameleon Brookesiamicra and the microhylid frog Stumpffia pygmaea. Several species are named...
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