#1716 · 🦎 reptiles
Flap-necked Chameleon
🇳🇱 Flapnekkameleon ·Chamaeleo dilepis
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © sandradennis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Joubert Heymans · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Paul Pratt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Sunčana Bradley · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Tom Armitage · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Russ Hoverman · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The flap-necked chameleon ( Chamaeleo dilepis ) is a species of arboreal chameleon native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
- 7,730 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Elford Leach in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Flap-necked Chameleon
- Nederlands
- Flapnekkameleon
- scientific name
- Chamaeleo dilepis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Chamaeleonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,730
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1819 by William Elford Leach
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Chamaeleonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 32854, Wikidata Q1805816, GBIF 2449077, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.