#1714 · 🦎 reptiles
Cape Dwarf Chameleon
🇳🇱 Dwergkameleon ·Bradypodion pumilum
📍 Helderberg Rural, Sir Lowry's Pass, 7135, South Africa
📍 Betty's Bay, 7141, South Africa
📍 Brassie St, Lakeside, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
📍 newlands,cape
📍 Paardevlei Trail, Cape Town, WC, ZA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © carienc2 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Ockert van Schalkwyk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alex Rebelo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Mike Richardson and Sarah Winch · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Elton Harding · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Helderberg Rural, Sir Lowry's Pass, 7135, South Africa:© linkie · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Betty's Bay, 7141, South Africa:© Carina Lochner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Brassie St, Lakeside, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa:© Jeremy Gilmore · CC BY 4.0
- 9. newlands,cape:© chameleon53 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Paardevlei Trail, Cape Town, WC, ZA:© Tiffany Schultz · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Cape dwarf chameleon ( Bradypodion pumilum ) is a chameleon native to the South African province of the Western Cape, where it is restricted to the region around Cape Town.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,812 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Cape Dwarf Chameleon
- Nederlands
- Dwergkameleon
- scientific name
- Bradypodion pumilum
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Chamaeleonidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,812
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Chamaeleonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 32954, Wikidata Q1106956, GBIF 2449228, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.