Calumma parsoni

Andreone, F., Glaw, F., Nussbaum, R. A., Raxworthy, C. J., Vences, M. & Randrianirina, J. E., 2003, The amphibians and reptiles of Nosy Be (NW Madagascar) and nearby islands: a case study of diversity and conservation of an insular fauna, Journal of Natural History 37 (17), pp. 2119-2149 : 2148

(8) (9) Calumma parsoni and Brookesia superciliaris . Both these species are reported for Nosy Be by IUCN/UNEP/WWF (1987). Concerning C. parsoni this indication is not corroborated by any direct or museological observation. However, a male and a female Brookesia superciliaris (respectively with a total length of 68.1 and 73.9 mm), with a label indicating as provenance locality ‘ Nossi Bé ’, are present in the Michigan Museum [UMMZ 65555 (1928-14]. Since this taxon is apparently limited (similarly to C. parsoni ) to the eastern Malagasy escarpment, and since it was not found in the NW, we are inclined to consider the two above specimens (moreover rather old) as mislabelled.