LEPILEMURIDAE, Gray, 1870

Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands & Don E. Wilson, 2013, Lepilemuridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 3 Primates, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 66-75 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6635114
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6633566
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F26623C-6E04-1B5A-E609-6A18F86A5156
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	LEPILEMURIDAE
status

Treatment

Family LEPILEMURIDAE View in CoL

(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. View Figure

• Madagascar. View Figure

• 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.