Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur

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name = Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Indriidae
genus = "Avahi"
species = "A. ramanantsoavana"
binomial = "Avahi ramanantsoavana"
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The Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur or Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur Avahi ("Avahi ramanantsoavana") is a species of woolly lemur native to southeastern Madagascar.cite journal | author = Andriantompohavana R. , Lei R., Zaonarivelo J. R., Engberg S. E., Nalanirina G., McGuire S. M., Shore G. D., Andrianasolo J., Herrington K., Brenneman R. A., and Louis E. E. Jr| title = Molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the woolly lemurs, Genus Avahi (Primates: Lemuriformes)| journal = Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University | volume = 51 | year = 2007 | pages = 43-44|url=http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/publications/opapers/specpubs/SP51.pdf] It weighs about 1 kg. It was originally considered a subspecies of Southern Woolly Lemur ("A. meridionalis"), "A. m. ramanantsoavana", but was elevated to a separate species in 2007 based on molecular, phenotypic and morphological data.

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