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Introduced Veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus<\/em>) have been living in Florida (USA) since at least 2002. The first wild Veiled chameleons were found in Collier County, two years later animals were observed in Fort Myers in Lee County. This was followed by findings in Hendry, Miamia-Dade, Broward, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Monroe, Alachua and Hillsborough County. Now an author in the Herpetological Review reports on 12 further populations in Florida: in Brevard, Charlotte, De Soto, Glades, Indian River, Lake, Manatee, Osceola, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota and Seminole County.<\/p>\n

He used data from iNaturalist<\/a> and EDDMapS<\/a>. The author suspects that most of the new finds could be due to so-called chameleon ranching. Chameleons are deliberately released into other habitats in order to later collect and sell the resulting juveniles. But even without prior release, collecting (‘harvesting’) animals for sale has become a source of income in Florida, which has also led to the fact that distribution data on new populations is rarely published. It is now a common recreational activity in Florida to search for Veiled chameleons at night. There are even commercial operators offering guided tours.<\/p>\n

One problem is increasingly the owners of private property who feel disturbed by \u2018chameleon tourism\u2019. The impact on native wildlife in the USA is still unclear. Theoretically, Veiled chameleons could eat smaller mammals or young birds, but there have been no reports of such incidents in Florida to date.<\/p>\n

It seems increasingly unlikely that it will be possible to get rid of the introduced Veiled chameleons. A one-year trial in Lake Worth Beach (Palm Beach) resulted in 1043 chameleons being caught during 71 collection campaigns, but not in the elimination of the population living there.<\/p>\n

New County Records for the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) in Florida, USA
\n<\/strong>Kevin M. Enge
\nHerpetological Review 55 (2)<\/a>, 2025: 223-226.
\nDOI: not available<\/p>\n

Photo: Chamaeleo calyptratus<\/em>, found and photographed in Fort Myers (USA) by Andrew Durso, CC-BY<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduced Veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) have been living in Florida (USA) since at least 2002. The first wild Veiled chameleons were found in Collier County, two years later animals were observed in Fort Myers in Lee County. This was followed by findings in Hendry, Miamia-Dade, Broward, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Monroe, Alachua and Hillsborough County. 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