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A team of local and international scientists have just described six new species of thumb-sized chameleon in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains.
The latest discovery brings to 26 the total number of Rhampholeon, or pygmy chameleons, described to date. More than half of them live in the Eastern Arc Mountains, whose mountain blocks resemble biological islands that have become the sites of species radiation for the tiny reptiles, just as the Galápagos Islands did for Charles Darwin’s finches.
But these forests are threatened by farmers and herders who clear them to grow crops and raise livestock. Most of the six newly described chameleons are already at risk of extinction due to habitat loss, according to researchers.
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