- Grewcock's sportive lemur
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Grewcock's sportive lemur Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Lepilemuridae Genus: Lepilemur Species: L. grewcockorum Binomial name Lepilemur grewcockorum
Louis, Jr, 2006
Grewcock's sportive lemur range Synonyms Lepilemur manasamody
Grewcock's sportive lemur (Lepilemur grewcockorum), or Anjiamangirana sportive lemur, is a sportive lemur endemic to Madagascar. It is a medium-sized sportive lemurs with a total length of about 55 to 63 centimeters, of which 26-30 centimeters are tail.[2] Grewcock's sportive lemur is found in northwesetrn Madagascar, living in dry deciduous forests.[2]
Originally named L. grewcocki, the name was found to be incorrectly formed and was corrected to L. grewcockorum in 2009.[3]
It was also found to be synonymous with the Manasamody sportive lemur (Lepilemur manasamody),[3][4] known for its primarily grey-brown coloration and known only from Ambongabe and Anjiamangirana I (between the Sofia River in the south and the Maevarano River in the north).[5] The decision was made because the sampling sites were within 2 km (1.2 mi) of each other, and no geographic barrier could be identified.[3]
References
- ^ Hoffmann, M. (2008). Lepilemur grewcockorum. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 1 January 2009.
- ^ a b Garbutt, Nick (2007). Mammals of Madagascar, A Complete Guide. p. 128.
- ^ a b c Hoffman, M.; Grubb, P.; Groves, C.P.; Hutterer, R.; Van der Straeten, E.; Simmons, N.; Bergmans, W. (2009). "A synthesis of African and western Indian Ocean Island mammal taxa (Class: Mammalia) described between 1988 and 2008: an update to Allen (1939) and Ansell (1989)" (PDF). Zootaxa 2205: 1–36. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02205p036f.pdf.
- ^ Mittermeier, R.A.; Louis, E.E.; Richardson, M.; Schwitzer, C.; Langrand, O.; Rylands, A.B.; Hawkins, F.; Rajaobelina, S. et al. (2010). Lemurs of Madagascar. Illustrated by S.D. Nash (3rd ed.). Conservation International. ISBN 978-1-934151-23-5.
- ^ Mathias Craul, Elke Zimmermann, Solofo Rasoloharijaona, Blanchard Randrianambinina and Ute Radespiel (2007-05-31). "Unexpected species diversity of Malagasy primates (Lepilemur spp.) in the same biogeographical zone: a morphological and molecular approach with the description of two new species". BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 83. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-83. PMC 1913500. PMID 17540016. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1913500.
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