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Cameleón pantera (Furcifer pardalis), Parque Nacional de Lokobe, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2025 09 21, DD 20🦎

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SpeciesChamaeleonidae
Reptiles

🦎Panther chameleon

Furcifer pardalis (Cuvier, 1829)

The panther chameleon is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome. Additionally, it has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius, as well as the state of Florida within the United States.

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≈ 1/230th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.27 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.2 years
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Everything we know about the Panther chameleon

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.27 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
5.2 yearsrecord 6 years · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Omnivorous
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.25 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.1 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Panther chameleon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyChamaeleonidae
  5. ›genusFurcifer
  6. ›speciesFurcifer pardalis
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. suborderIguania
  3. familyChamaeleonidae
  4. genusFurcifer
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. suborderIguania
  12. familyChamaeleonidae
  13. genusFurcifer
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In other languages
Panterkameleon (nb), kameleon lamparci (pl), Camaleão-pantera (pt), Caméléon panthère (fr), Furcifer pardalis (es), camaleó pantera (ca) … and 19 more languages
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Cameleón pantera (Furcifer pardalis), Parque Nacional de Lokobe, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2025 09 21, DD 20Cameleón pantera (Furcifer pardalis), Parque Nacional de Lokobe, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2025 09 21, DD 19Cameleón pantera (Furcifer pardalis), Parque Nacional de Lokobe, Nosy Be, Madagascar, 2025 09 21, DD 21
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