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However, the southern fat-tailed dwarf lemur (C. adipicaudatus) was later deemed synonymous with the fat-tailed dwarf lemur (C. medius), and the greater iron-gray dwarf lemur (C. ravus) was synonymous with the greater dwarf lemur (C. major) [4] Another new woolly lemur was described as the Sambirano woolly lemur (Avahi unicolor). [3]
At least 17 species and eight genera are believed to have become extinct in the 2,000 years since humans first arrived in Madagascar. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] All known extinct species were large, ranging in weight from 10 to 200 kg (22 to 441 lb).
Between 2000 and 2009, a population of dwarf lemur was known as a separate species, the southern fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus adipicaudatus). It was described by taxonomist Colin Groves as having a pelage coloration that is dark dorsally and gray ventrally , with a vaguely expressed dorsal stripe running down the back, a relatively ...
Anosy mouse lemur (Microcebus tanosi), a mouse lemur, was described by Rodin Rasoloarison, David Weisrock, Anne Yoder, Daniel Rakotondravony, and Peter Kappeler. It is found in eastern Madagascar. [11] Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis), a dwarf lemur, described by Thiele, Razafimahatratra
A lithograph of a dwarf lemur from Carl Vogt and Friedrich Specht's The Natural History of Animals (1888). Measuring 19–27 cm in body length with a tail about 16–17 cm, they are larger than the mouse lemur but smaller than the gentle lemur.
Dwarf lemurs include all species in the genus Cheirogaleus. Pages in category "Dwarf lemurs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Lemurs were first formally classified in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae.. In the first volume of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae (1758), Carl Linnaeus, the founder of modern binomial nomenclature, created the genus Lemur to include three species: Lemur tardigradus (the red slender loris, now known as Loris tardigradus), Lemur catta (the ring-tailed lemur), and Lemur volans (the ...
Some species, such as the lesser dwarf lemur, store fat at the hind legs and the base of the tail, and hibernate. Unlike lemurids , they have long upper incisors , although they do have the comb-like teeth typical of all strepsirhines.