Talk:Brookesia betschi

A fact from Brookesia betschi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 December 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Blanc's Leaf Chameleon is threatened by slash-and-burn?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brookesia betschi.

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Source interpretation

I had to make some significant fixes after examining this article at DYK. The type specimen was found in 1973 and published in 1974. It was not found in Antananarivo; that's where the journal reporting the species description was published. "Terra typica" means the location of the type specimen, not the typical habitat of the species. The distribution from iucnredlist.org includes the phrase "these protected areas", indicating that "Anjanaharibe Sud" etc. refer to national parks and nature reserves. I have corrected the distribution accordingly. In addition, I winnowed down the sources as well. It's better to have a few high-quality web sources like that of the IUCN than a bunch of them that are just scraping databases from who-knows-where. Choess (talk) 06:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong describer

It isnn't Patrick Blanc but the french herpetologist Charles Pierre Blanc (1933-). Former was born 1953 and definite a few years under age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keultjes (talk • contribs) 11:49, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! Micromesistius (talk) 11:04, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]