Male panther chameleon gripping a branch, showing vivid color pattern

Reptilia · Squamata

Panther Chameleon

Furcifer pardalis

Arboreal lizard whose skin cells contain a lattice of light-reflecting nanocrystals it can actively tune within seconds, producing rapid, vivid color shifts driven by mood, temperature, and social signaling.

Realm
Terrestrial
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 874 licence-filtered records across 24 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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