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Blanc's leaf chameleon

Brookesia betschi Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1974

Status not recordedlizards

The blanc's leaf chameleon (Brookesia betschi) is a species in the family Chamaeleonidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 1.21 g and reach 3.65 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Madagascar.

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Quick facts about the blanc's leaf chameleon

Weight
1.21 gsrc for Weight
Length
3.65 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Eggssrc for Reproduction
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the blanc's leaf chameleon?

BLANC'S LEAF CHAMELEON · LENGTH 3.65 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 3.65 cm, the recorded maximum length of the blanc's leaf chameleon is about 2.1% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the blanc's leaf chameleon live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The blanc's leaf chameleon is listed for 1 country.

Madagascar
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Madagascar

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

Is the blanc's leaf chameleon endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the blanc's leaf chameleon classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyChamaeleonidae
  6. genusBrookesia
  7. SpeciesBrookesia betschi Brygoo, Blanc & Domergue, 1974
Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • Marojejy leaf chameleonEnglish
  • Rakolakan’i MarojejyMalagasy

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

Relatives of the blanc's leaf chameleon

Other species in the same genus Brookesia.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the blanc's leaf chameleon?

An adult blanc's leaf chameleon weighs 1.21 g and measures 3.65 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the blanc's leaf chameleon live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the blanc's leaf chameleon for 1 country: Madagascar. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the blanc's leaf chameleon?

The blanc's leaf chameleon (Brookesia betschi) belongs to the family Chamaeleonidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Blanc's leaf chameleon (Brookesia betschi). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/blancs-leaf-chameleon

MLA

“Blanc's leaf chameleon (Brookesia betschi).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/blancs-leaf-chameleon.

BibTeX
@misc{blancs_leaf_chameleon_2026,
  title = {Blanc's leaf chameleon (Brookesia betschi)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/blancs-leaf-chameleon},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}