Worlds smallest Cham? What species?

[jojackson]

{pic at link below}

From: Africa » Madagascar
Blog: Madagascar: Antananarivo, Nosy Be, Diego Suarez, and Andasibe (4/12 - 5/19)
Photographer: Pau Viajera (Paulina Ponce de Leon Barido)

About this photograph:

The world's smallest chameleon (Montagne d'Ambre)

http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/397300

 

[summoner12]

That is pretty cool!

 

[DJ Richey Rich]

If I was that little booger id be afraid of a fruit fly

 

[xanthoman]

how small can they go?

my question is; is that supposed to be fully grown cham? and if so , how small are the newborns ? the one shown clearly smaller than my current micro neonates (now 10 days)

, but not by much?

 

[jojackson]

I think its an adult, might be Brookesia minima perhaps? Photo was taken at Nosy be

http://www.arkive.org/minute-leaf-chameleon/brookesia-minima/info.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookesia_minima

other images of this species

http://images.google.com.au/images?...esia+minima&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

 

[Lizardlover]

its Brookesia Minima and that is an adult another species that comes in close to smallest would be Brookesia Peyrierasi, they are the 2nd or 3rd smallest vertebrates on earth.

 

[Chris Anderson]

Well, not quite that simple. Brookesia minima is generally considered the smallest chameleon species but there are a number of closely related species that are almost always incorrectly called B. minima. Which of these species is the true smallest in the group is questionable. The photo in the original link was taken in Montagne d'Ambre which means it is not B. minima but rather B. tuberculata.

Chris

 

[casperpetersen]

I had a group of tuberculata few years ago. this was my setup

extra tiny babies!!