Re: Tiny tetrapods

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

>> There's an adult lizard in Cuba called *Sphaerodactylus* that gets about

>>as small, two can curl on a dime. Hatchlings are far smaller.


>There's also an adult chamaeleon in Madagascar that is in the same size 
range. -- If we leave the >amniotes, the smallest adult tetrapod seems to 
be a frog in Cuba which measures 9 mm. It's so >small that it lays only one 
egg -- but that egg is big enough that the entire tadpole stage is >spent 
inside. Seen on TV on Tuesday.


So the smallest frog, the smallest lizard and the smallest bird (Bee 
Hummingbird) are all Cuban. Being very small is apparently a better idea on 
islands than on continents.

Tommy Tyrberg