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{{Speciesbox | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn | | image = Minute leaf chameleon (Brookesia minima) Lokobe.jpg | image_caption = Lokobe Strict Reserve Line 14 ⟶ 15: }} '''''Brookesia minima''''', ([[common name]]s of which include the '''dwarf chameleon''', the '''Madagascan dwarf chameleon''',<ref name="camb">{{cite journal|first1=Frank|last1=Glaw|first2=Miguel|last2=Vences|first3=Thomas|last3=Ziegler|first4=Wolfgang|last4=Böhme|first5=Jörn|last5=Köhler|year=1999|title=Specific distinctness and biogeography of the dwarf chameleons Brookesia minima, B. peyrierasi and B. tuberculata (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae): evidence from hemipenial and external morphology|journal=Journal of Zoology|volume=247|issue=2|pages=225–238|doi=10.1017/s0952836999002101}}</ref> the '''minute leaf chameleon''',<ref name="ark">{{cite web|url=http://www.arkive.org/minute-leaf-chameleon/brookesia-minima/#text=All|publisher=Arkive:Images of Life on Earth|title=Minute leaf chameleon|access-date=2015-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905114735/http://www.arkive.org/minute-leaf-chameleon/brookesia-minima/#text=All#text=All|archive-date=2015-09-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the '''Nosy Be pygmy leaf chameleon'''), is a [[island dwarfism|diminutive]] [[chameleon]] that was regarded as the smallest lizard<ref name=repdb>{{cite web|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Brookesia&species=minima|publisher=Reptile Database|title=Brookesia minima}}</ref> of the [[ ==Range== ''B. minima'' is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Nosy Be]],<ref name="GnV07">{{cite book|last1=Glaw|first1=Frank|last2=Vences|first2=Miguel|title=A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar|date=2007|publisher=Vences & Glaw Verlags|location=Cologne, Germany|isbn=978-3929449037|edition=3rd}}</ref> an [[island]] located just off the northwest [[coast]] of [[Madagascar]], but has extralimital distribution to [[Manongarivo Reserve]] on Madagascar's northwest coast.<ref name=glaw>{{cite journal|title=Rivaling the World's Smallest Reptiles: Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar|journal=PLOS ONE|last1=Glaw|first1=F|last2=Köhler|first2=J|last3=Townsend |first3=TM|last4=Vences|first4=M|year=2012|volume=7|issue=2|pages=e31314|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0031314|pmid=22348069|pmc=3279364|doi-access=free}}</ref> ==Description== [[File:20150510-IMG 0786.jpg|thumb|left]] ''B. minima'' is the ==Habitat== Line 44 ⟶ 45: {{Taxonbar|from=Q2022984}} [[Category:Brookesia]] [[Category:Endemic fauna of Madagascar]] [[Category:Reptiles of Madagascar]] [[Category:Endangered fauna of Africa]] [[Category:Reptiles described in 1893]] [[Category:Taxa named by Oskar Boettger]] |