Chamaeleo monachus
The Socotran chameleon is a species of chameleon endemic to the island of Socotra. When alarmed, it makes a hissing noise, and depending on its mood, it may change color. It is endangered by overgrazing, and is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List. The Socotran chameleon lives in dense shrubland, along wadis, and sometimes in palm plantations.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Socotran chameleonPBDB
- Sits inside
- ChamaeleoPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chamaeleo monachus on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Chamaeleo monachus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Chamaeleo monachus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Apus2 sites
- Chalcomitra balfouri2 sites
- Ditypophis vivax2 sites
- Emberiza2 sites
- Haemodracon riebeckii2 sites
- Haemodracon trachyrhinus2 sites
- Hypsugo lanzai2 sites
- Lanius excubitor2 sites
- Mus domesticus2 sites
- Oena capensis2 sites
- Oenanthe2 sites
- Passer insularis2 sites
- Rattus norvegicus2 sites
- Rhinolophus clivosus2 sites
- Rhinopoma cystops2 sites
- Rhynchostruthus socotranus2 sites
- Spilopelia senegalensis2 sites
- Suncus madagascariensis2 sites
- Sylviidae2 sites
- Trachylepis socotrana2 sites
- Treron waalia2 sites
- Xerotyphlops socotranus2 sites
- Zosterops abyssinicus2 sites
- Anas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chamaeleo monachus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Chamaeleo monachus
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No 3D scan of Chamaeleo monachus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChamaeleo through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1865