Gray-backed Sportive Lemur

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Gray-backed Sportive Lemur[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Lepilemuridae
Genus: Lepilemur
Species: L. dorsalis
Binomial name
Lepilemur dorsalis
Gray, 1870

The Gray-backed Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis) is a species of lemur in the Lepilemuridae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 118. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. 
  2. ^ a b Ganzhorn, J. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Lepilemur dorsalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
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