Calumma boettgeri is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family Chamaeleonidae. The species is endemic to Madagascar.
Etymology The specific name, boettgeri, is in honor of German herpetologist Oskar Boettger.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptile. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calumma boettgeri, p. 29).
Geographic range C. boettgeri is found in northern Madagascar, including the island of Nosy Be.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. boettgeri is forest, at altitudes of .
Description C. boettgeri may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , and tail length equals SVL.Boulenger (1903).
Behavior C. boettgeri is arboreal, and is usually found above the forest floor.
Reproduction C. boettgeri is oviparous.
References
Further reading Barbour T (1903). "Two New Species of Chamaeleon". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 16: 61–62. ("Chamaeleo macrorhinus ", new species, p. 62). Boulenger GA (1888). "Descriptions of two new Chamæleons from Nossi Bé, Madagascar ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 1: 22–23. ("Chamæleon Bœttgeri ", new species, p. 23 + Plate II, figure 3). Prötzel D, Ruthensteiner B, Scherz MD, Glaw F (2015). "Systematic revision of the Malagasy chameleons Calumma boettgeri and C. linotum (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae)". Zootaxa 4048 (2): 211–231.