#1833 · 🦎 reptiles
Veiled Chameleon
🇳🇱 Yemen Kameleon ·Chamaeleo calyptratus
📍 Brevard County, FL, USA
📍 Ibb, YE
📍 Miami-Dade County, Florida
📍 Taiwan
📍 San Miguel, 62520 Tepoztlán, Mor., México
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Bobby Bok · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © dirius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Matteo Paolo Tauriello · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Josh Olive · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Brevard County, FL, USA:© Mark + Holly Salvato · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Ibb, YE:© Petr Necas · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Miami-Dade County, Florida:© John Sullivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Taiwan:© abujudy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. San Miguel, 62520 Tepoztlán, Mor., México:© naturaladventurer · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The veiled chameleon ( Chamaeleo calyptratus ) is a species of chameleon native to the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Other common names include cone-head chameleon and Yemen chameleon .
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.
- 1,940 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1851 (175 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Veiled Chameleon
- Nederlands
- Yemen Kameleon
- scientific name
- Chamaeleo calyptratus
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Chamaeleonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,940
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1851 by André Marie Constant Duméril
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Chamaeleonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 32873, Wikidata Q1124882, GBIF 2449133, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.