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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER PRIMATES
--> SUBORDER STREPSIRRHINI
--> INFRAORDER LEMURIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Lemuroidea
--> FAMILY Lemuridae
--> GENUS Eulemur
SPECIES Eulemur fulvus
| Author: | É. Geoffroy, 1796. | | Citation: | Mag. Encyclop., 1: 47. | | Common Name: | Brown Lemur | | Type Locality: | Madagascar. | | Distribution: | W Madagascar from Akarafantsika north to the Sambirano, perhaps to the Tsaratanana; E Madagascar, some way northeast of Antananarivo; Mayotte (Comoro Isls). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | | Comments: | Does not include albifrons, albocollaris, collaris, rufus or sanfordi; Groves (2001c) treated these forms, generally classed as subspecies, as distinct species. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bruneus (van der Hoeven, 1844)
mayottensis (Schlegel, 1866)
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