Chameleon literature available

A long-standing member of our working group has kindly provided us with a whole series of books and papers on chameleons and other reptiles, which are now being made available for the benefit of the Chameleon Working Group (AG Chamäleons). Among them are some very old original treasures and many out-of-print editions of books. All books and papers can be sent by post (from Germany), with shipping costs added to the price. If you are interested, please send an email to info@agchamaeleons.de . Below is a list of the available literature with information on its condition. Photos of all items are available on request or here.

1 Philippe Philippe de Vosjoli: Essential Care of Chameleons
Paperback, 72 pages, 3rd edition from 2004, out of print
Price: €10
Condition: Very good, inside flawless, outside with slight wear to corners and edges

2 Wolfgang Schmidt, Klaus Tamm, Erich Wallikewitz: Chamäleons, Drachen unsrer Zeit
Paperback, 160 pages, 2nd edition from 1996
Price: €10
Condition: Very good, inside flawless, outside with slight wear to corners and edges

3 Rolf Müller, Nicolá Lutzmann, Ulrike Walbröl: Furcifer pardalis, das Pantherchamäleon
Paperback, 127 pages, 1st edition from 2004, out of print
Price: €10
Condition: almost like new, minimal wear to corners on the outside

4 Dr. Wolfgang Uthmöller: Schlangen wie ich sie sah
Hardcover, 127 pages, probably from 1948
Price: €20
Condition: very good for its age, pages naturally yellowed, edges and cover stained in places, remnants of old stickers inside the cover, pages themselves in perfect condition.

5 Joseph Nicolai Laurenti: Austriaci Viennensis Specimen medicum exhibens Synopsin Reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum
Paperback, 248 pages, reprint with English translation from 2005
Price: €25
Condition: like new

6 James B. Murphy: Chameleons: Johann von Fischer and other perspectives
Paperback, 123 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: €15
Condition: very good, minimal wear to corners and very slight creases on the outside, inside in perfect condition

7 Vincent A. Wagner: The life of the chameleon
Paperback, 32 pages, 2nd edition from 1987
Condition: good to very good, cover slightly worn on the edges and corners (see photo), inside in perfect condition

8 Philippe de Vosjoli: True chameleons Part II, Notes on popular species, diseases and disorders
Paperback, 28 pages, 1st edition 1990, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good, cover with storage stains and minimal creases, interior flawless

9 Philippe de Vosjoli: True Chameleons Part I Husbandry
Paperback, 36 pages, 1st edition 1990, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good, cover with minor stains, spine slightly bumped, interior flawless

10 Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences: A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar
Paperback, 480 pages, 2nd edition from 1994
Price: €5
Condition: very good, edges and corners bumped, inside flawless

11 Krystal Tolley, Marius Burger: Chameleons of Southern Africa
Paperback, 100 pages, 1st edition from 2007
Price: €15
Condition: almost like new, corners and edges minimally bumped

12 Michaela Jötzlaff: Das Helmchamäleon (Trioceros) hoehnelli
Paperback, 63 pages, 1st edition from 2008
Price: €10
Condition: like new, inside with dedication and name

13 Rudolf Malkmus: Die Amphibien und Reptilien Portugals, Madeiras und der Azoren
Paperback, 98 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: €15
Condition: very good, minor stains on the cover and edges, inside flawless

14 Francois LeBerre, R.D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett: The Chameleon Handbook
Paperback, 128 pages, 2nd edition from 2000
Price: €15
Condition: like new, price sticker on the back of the cover

15 R.D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett: Chameleons, a complete pet owner’s manual
Paperback, 103 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: 10 €
Condition: very good, corners and edges slightly bumped, spine faded

16 Günther Masurat: Vermehrung von Chamäleons
Hardcover, 143 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: 15 €
Condition: very good, corners slightly bumped, inside like new

17 Gaston-Francois de Witte: Les Caméléons de l’Afrique Centrale
Paperback, > 200 pages, presumably 1st edition from 1965, out of print
Price: 40 €
Condition: very good, spine faded, edges minimally bumped, pencil notes on first page inside, interior flawless

18 E.-R. Brygoo: Faune de Madagascar, XXXIII Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae Genre Chamaeleo
Paperback, 318 pages, 1st edition from 1971
Price: €40
Condition: good, cover yellowed, edges of spine clearly bumped, both corners of back cover missing; inside completely flawless

19 Philippe de Vosjoli, Gary Ferguson: Care and Breeding of Chameleons
Paperback, 128 pages, 1st edition from 1995, out of print
Price: €15
Condition: good to very good, cover scuffed, especially at the corners and edges, with small tears and creases, spine faded, inside in perfect condition

20 Rolf Müller, Wolfgang Schmidt: Stummelschwanzchamäleons der Gattung Rieppeleon Paperback, 95 pages, 1st edition from 2008
Price: 10 €
Condition: very good, edges bumped in places, dedication by the authors on the first page, otherwise inside in perfect condition

21 Fitzinger’s Systema Reptilium
Paperback, 115 pages, reprint from 1973, out of print
Price: €30
Condition: small note in pencil on the first page, otherwise flawless; spine slightly faded, corners and edges slightly bumped

22 Henkel, Schmidt: Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, Seychelles and Comoros
Hardcover, 312 pages, 1st edition from 1995
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, corners slightly bumped, cover faded, interior flawless

23 J.E. Gray’s The Zoological Miscellany
Paperback, 90 pages, 1st edition from 1971
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, spine and parts of the cover discoloured/faded, otherwise flawless

24 William R. Branch, Aaron M. Bauer: The herpetological contributions of Sir Andrew Smith
Paperback, 85 pages, 1st edition from 2005
Price: €15
Condition: like new

25 Charles Klaver, Wolfgang Böhme: Phylogeny and classification of the Chamaeleonidae (Sauria) with special reference to hemipenis morphology
Paperback, 64 pages, 1st edition from 1986
Condition: minor damage to spine, spine faded, otherwise very good

26 Robert Mertens, Willi Henning, Heinz Wermuth: Das Tierreich, eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen
Paperback, 38 pages, 1st edition from 1966
Condition: very good, corners and edges bumped, pencil note on the first page, otherwise flawless inside

27 A. E. Gunther: The miscellaneous autobiographical manuscripts of John Edward Gray (1800-1875)
Paperback, 245 pages, 1st edition from 1980
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, pencil note on cover, cover with minor creases and stains, interior flawless

28 A.S. Rand: Notes on the Chamaeleo bitaeniatus complex
Paperback, 30 pages, 1st edition from 1963
Price: €10
Condition: very good, minor stains on the bottom of the cover, spine faded, edges ditto, interior flawless

29 Robert Mertens: The Chameleon of Pemba Island
2 pages from 1964
Price: €10
Condition: very good, minimal creases on the top edge

30 Separate of a paper published by The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature on behalf of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
3 pages stapled, from 1971
Price: €10
Condition: very good, cover with crease in upper corner and very small spots

31 Prof. Dr. Robert Mertens: Live-bearing three-horned chameleons
Issue 7/8 Natur und Volk from 1949, 5 pages
Price:
Condition: very good, slight creases, interior flawless

32 Thomas Barbour: Two new species of chameleons
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. XVI, 1903, 1 page
Price: €15
Condition: very good

33 Zoologischer Anzeiger from 10 April 1893
Price: €25
Condition: very good, title page with stamp and handwritten note, otherwise flawless for its age

34 A. Stanley Rand: A new subspecies of Chamaeleo jacksonii Boulenger and a key to the species of three-horned chameleons
Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology No. 99, 4 pages from 1958

Price: €15
Condition: very good, note on the top right of the title page, slight creases

35 Claudia Schnieper, Max Meier: Das Chamäleon, Meisterschütze und Verwandlungskünstler
Hardcover, 40 pages, 2nd edition 1988
Price: €5
Condition: very good, minimal marks on the cover, slight discolouration of the inner page edges

36 Friedrich Wilhelm Henkel, Wolfgang Schmidt: Agamen im Terrarium
Hardcover, 151 pages, 1st edition 1997
Price: €10
Condition: very good, two corners of the cover clearly bumped, tiny tear in the spine, otherwise flawless

37 Martin Eisentraut: Im Schatten des Mongo-ma-loba
Hardcover, 240 pages, 1st edition 1982
Price: €5
Condition: good to very good, cover faded with minor creases, corners slightly bumped, small pencil note on first page, interior flawless

38 Gunther Köhler: Inkubation von Reptilieneiern
Hardcover, 205 pages, 1st edition from 1997
Price: €10
Condition: good to very good, cover significantly faded, otherwise flawless

39 Kameleon Vereniging Nederland: Chameleons, a fascinating hobby
Paperback, 96 pages, Lacerta 64-5/6 from 2006
Price:
Condition: very good, corners and edges minimally bumped

40 Martin Eisentraut: The vertebrate fauna of Fernando Poo and West Cameroon
Bonner Zoologische Monographien No. 3, 1973
Price: €20
Condition: good to very good, cover faded in places, edges and corners bumped

41 Annals of the South African Museum Cape Town, Vol. 61, 1973
Paperback, 160 pages
Price: €40
Condition: good, cover with various creases and stains, interior flawless

42 Herpetozoa 18(3/4) from 2005
Paperback, pages 97-208
Price: €20
Condition: like new

44 E.-R. Brygoo: Faune de Madagacar 47, Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae: Genre Brookesia et complement pour le genre Chamaeleo
Paperback, 174 pages, from 1978
Price: €35
Condition: very good, crease and small tear in the spine, inside in perfect condition

45 Linda J. Davison: Chameleons, their care and breeding
Paperback, 112 pages, edition from 1997
Price: €25
Condition: very good, dedication by the author on the first page (without name), slight crease at top right, cover with several very small spots

46 Draco Terraristik special issue Madagascar
No. 19, Volume 5, 3-2004; paperback, 96 pages
Price: €20
Condition: like new

47 Draco Terraristik Special Issue Chameleons
No. 1/2000, Volume 1(1), 96 pages
Price: €20
Condition: like new

49 Verenigingsblad van de Kameleonvereniging Nederland No. 1, 2004
28 pages
Price: €5
Condition: good to very good, punched and cover slightly yellowed, inside flawless

50 Treatises of the Senckenberg Natural History Society, No. 442
Robert Mertens: Herpetological Findings from a Trip to Cameroon
Paperback, 60 pages, 1938
Price: €35
Condition: very good for its age, cover with a very small tear at the top, spine bumped, a small piece missing at the bottom, above which the spine is torn, cover and pages yellowed at the edges, first page inside with small stains, everything else inside in perfect condition

New publication: A book about the tiger chameleon

by Alex Negro Book publications

Until now, there was no book that dealt with the keeping of the tiger chameleon. You had to painstakingly search for individual reports on keeping tiger chameleons from various sources and puzzle together small pieces of information to form a larger unit. With the newly published book by Markus Grimm, who has been a member of the AG Chamäleons for almost 20 years, this has now changed. Markus Grimm was responsible for the first breeding of the tiger chameleon in 2004 and teaches courses on chameleons in Switzerland.

The first quarter of the book is about chameleons in general. The distribution and the diversity of the different species and their habitats are presented. A brief overview of possible diseases of chameleons in terraristics as well as tips on what should be considered when buying a chameleon completes this part of the book. Then it’s on to the tiger chameleon itself. The distribution and habitat of the small chameleons on the Seychelles islands of Mahé, Praslin and Silhouette are presented. This is followed by herpetoculture: basics such as terrarium size, ventilation and climate technology are explained as well as CITES listing and corresponding keeper obligations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the biology of the tiger chameleon, some information is repeated and specified for the species. The sex determination of the tiger chameleon is explained in detail so that even a beginner should be able to select suitable animals for a small breeding group after reading the book. The author gives concrete recommendations on food quantity and food insects. Many personal experiences of the author form the main focus of the book. The book concludes with a detailed section on the reproduction of the tiger chameleon in the terrarium. Mating, pregnancy and egg-laying are discussed in richly illustrated detail. The author also dispels the myth that Archaius tigris only lays its eggs in leaf axils. It does show this behaviour frequently, but there are also tiger chameleons that bury their eggs in the ground like other egg-laying chameleon species of the Indian Ocean. Egg incubation and hatching as well as the rearing of the young complete the species presentation.

The book is aimed at anyone who is considering keeping Archaius tigris. The large font makes it easy to read. In some places, the lack of picture descriptions, some technically vague information and a lot of detached photos disturb the reading flow a little. The first quarter of the book also sometimes gets lost in other chameleon species. However, it then finds its way back to the tiger chameleon to deliver the world’s first book of its kind on Archaius tigris. The advanced chameleon keeper will certainly enjoy the last third of the book most, with many details on the propagation of the species and rearing of the young. For the novice keeper, the book offers a great deal of very valuable information for good, chameleon-friendly husbandry.

The book is only available in German. It is self-published and can be ordered from the author.

The tiger chameleon (Archaius tigris) – keeping, care and reproduction
Markus Grimm
131 pages, Self-published
ISBN 978-3-033-09238-9
currently at the introductory price of 20 CHF/€ excluding shipping
otherwise 22,90 CHF (currently 22,90 €) excluding shipping
Order directly from the author markus-grimm@gmx.ch

New publication: A book about the European Chameleon

by Alex Negro Book publications

“The common chameleon – Chamaeleo chamaeleon” fills a small gap in the reptile book market, because until now there was no comparable book dealing only with this species. The authors are Jürg Meier, professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Basel in Switzerland and member of the AG Chamäleons, Juan Pablo González de la Vega, herpetologist from Andalusia and Joaquín Santaolalla, head of the Biodiversity Control Centre at the Málaga Veterinary Office.

At the beginning of the book, the species Chamaeleo chamaeleon is introduced, its habitat and the differences to Chamaeleo africanus, the second chameleon species native to Europe. The rest of the first half of the book then deals mainly with basic knowledge about chameleons in general. The body structure, the modified hands and feet, the highly specialised eye, the ability to change colour and the famous tongue shot are discussed among other things. Again and again, results from scientific studies are incorporated into the text. The second half of the book deals with the life cycle and occurrence of Chamaeleo chamaeleon. Predators are introduced, and mating and reproduction, as well as the different colour dresses of the animals, are explained. Photos of nest-building, egg-laying and hatching of the small chameleons complete the presentation of the species. Finally, the endangerment of the European chameleon and current conservation efforts in Spain are discussed. Many photos and graphics illustrate the text.

The book is aimed at laymen – people who do not know much about chameleons and would like to learn more. It is easy to read and easy to understand, only a few sections get a little lost in scientific terms. A bit of a pity is some pixelated and altogether very colourful graphics in the book, which detract from the valuable overall impression. Ultimately, however, this does not detract from the purpose of the book. It awakens enthusiasm for chameleons, especially among interested nature lovers who have had nothing to do with these fascinating reptiles until now. And that is exactly what it was designed for. The book is currently being used in Málaga as a small textbook in environmental lessons at school and as a purchasable read for curious travellers and locals.

The book is available in German and Spanish. It is self-published and can currently be obtained from the author (see below) or from the Chameleon Centre of the Veterinary Office of Málaga, Spain.

The common chameleon – Chamaeleo chamaeleon
Jürg Meier, Juan Pablo Gonzalez de la Vega, Joaquín Santaolalla
128 pages, Jumeba Sachbuch Verlag
ISBN 978-3-907338-00-1

20 € including shipping
Order under https://jumeba.ch/shop/ or directly via the first author j.meier@jumeba.ch

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