Family LEPILEMURIDAE

(SPORTIVE LEMURS)

• Medium-sized prosimians with long hindlimbs, shortish, blunt face, large eyes, prominent, rounded ears, soft, dense, woolly, reddish, brown, and gray fur, and tail not longer than body.

• 40-60 cm.

• Madagascar.

• Primary and secondary lowand mid-elevation evergreen and deciduous, transitional subhumid, thorn, gallery, and spiny forests, and scrub.

• 1 genus, 26 species, 26 taxa.

• | species Critically Endangered, 1 species Endangered, 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.