Scientists Discover Funky-Nosed 'Pinocchio Chameleon' Is Actually Three Species. Here's The Fun Way To Tell Them Apart

Scientists Discover Funky-Nosed 'Pinocchio Chameleon' Is Actually Three Species. Here's The Fun Way To Tell Them Apart

Scientists Discover Funky-Nosed 'Pinocchio Chameleon' Is Actually Three Species. Here's The Fun Way To Tell Them Apart Calumma gallus is a small chameleon from eastern Madagascar that scientists still don’t fully understand.  But thanks to a new study led by German herpetologist Frank Glaw, scientists have a new grasp on the color-changing creatures. In the study, which was published in "Salamandra: The German Journal of Herpetology" on October 30, Glaw and his colleagues revealed that two subtypes of chameleons in the Calumma gallus species complex, long mistaken for each other, belong to categories entirely unto themselves.  By sequencing old museum specimens, they discovered that one chameleon — C. nasutum — actually belongs within the C. gallus species complex, even though it doesn’t have the long nose-like structure usually seen in the group.  The populations that were once labeled C. nasutum are now described as a new species, Calumma hofreiteri , Hofreiter’s cha…