Lepilemur seali, Louis, 2006
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8. View Plate 5: Lepilemuridae
Seal’s Sportive Lemur
French: Lépilémur de Seal / German: Seal-Wieselmaki / Spanish: Lémur saltador de Seal
Other common names: Anjanaharibe-Sud Sportive Lemur
Taxonomy. Lepilemur seali Louis et al., 2006 View in CoL ,
Madagascar, province of Antsiranana, Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve (c.14° 47° S, 47° 28’ EF).
The Lepilemur from Mananara-Nord (south of the Antainambalana River) was provisionally assigned to this form by E. E.
Louis Jr. and coworkers in 2006, but it was later described as a separate species, L. hollandorum , by B. Ramaromilanto and coworkers in 2009. Monotypic.
Distribution. NE Madagascar, known only from the Anjanaharibe-Sud region, ranging S of the Antainambalana River at least as far as the Fananehana River and including the Makira region. Additional surveys are needed to determine the S and N extents of the distribution. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body ¢.27 cm, tail ¢.26 cm; weight ¢.950 g. A medium-sized species with extremely long, thick pelage. The fur is uniformly light chocolate-brown to reddish-brown above and lighter brownish-gray below, with cream-tipped hairs along the lateral border. The face is light brownish-gray, and a yellow to white collar is present on the neck. The hands and feet are a light grayish-brown, and the tail is a contrasting brownish-gray, occasionally with the hairs tipped with white.
Habitat. Rainforest.
Food and Feeding. There is no specific information available for this species, butit is presumably largely folivorous.
Breeding. There is no information available for this species.
Activity patterns. Nocturnal and arboreal.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. This species has not been studied in the wild.
Status and Conservation. CITES Appendix I. Classified as Data Deficient on The [UCN Red List. However, at the IUCN/SSC Lemur Red-Listing Workshop held in July 2012, L. seali was assessed as endangered. The only protected area in which Seal’s Sportive Lemur is known to occur is Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve. It is also found in the forests of Makira, which are currently under temporary government protection, but recent studies have shown that current levels of hunting are unsustainable. Densities in Makira were 30 ind/km?.
Bibliography. Craul et al. (2008), Golden (2005), Louis, Engberg et al. (2006), Lei et al. (2008), Mittermeier et al. (2010), Ramaromilanto et al. (2009).
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