Editing Chameleon (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
[[File: Minute leaf chameleon (Brookesia minima) Lokobe.jpg|thumb|'' Brookesia minima'', Lokobe Strict Reserve. The 30 species of chameleons in the genus ''[[Brookesia]]'' are tiny, usually brown-colored and mainly terrestrial.]]

Chameleons primarily live in the mainland of [[sub-Saharan Africa]] and on the island of Madagascar, although a few species live in [[northern Africa]], [[southern Europe]] (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta), the [[Middle East]], southeast [[Pakistan]], [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]], and several smaller islands in the [[List of islands in the Indian Ocean#Western Indian Ocean|western Indian Ocean]]. [[Introduced species|Introduced]], non-native populations are found in Hawaii and Florida.<ref name="Glaw 2015"/>

Chameleons are found only in [[tropical]] and [[subtropical]] regions and inhabit all kinds of lowland and mountain forests, woodlands, shrublands, [[savanna]]s, and sometimes [[desert]]s, but each species tends to be a restricted to only one of a few different habitat types. The typical chameleons from the subfamily Chamaeleoninae are [[arboreal]], usually living in trees or bushes, although a few (notably the [[Namaqua chameleon]]) are partially or largely [[Terrestrial animal|terrestrial]]. The genus ''[[Brookesia]]'', which comprises the majority of the species in the subfamily Brookesiinae, live low in vegetation or on the ground among [[leaf litter]]. Many chameleon species have small distributions and are considered threatened. Declining chameleon numbers are mostly due to habitat loss.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2014-08-habitat-loss-fragmentation-chameleon-population.html|title=Habitat loss and fragmentation reduce chameleon population in Tanzania|website=Phys.org|access-date=1 November 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Annual, 1900 (May) - DPLA - f70e683a9783e725f2b773369b13ab9b (page 32) (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|Image published in the Manual Training Highschool Annuel, 1900]]