Gray-backed sportive lemur

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
Gray-backed sportive lemur range
Synonyms
  • grandidieri Forsyth Major, 1894

The gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis), also known as gray's sportive lemur or back-striped sportive lemur, is a species of lemur in the Lepilemuridae family. It is endemic to Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.[2]

References

  1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 118. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100068. 
  2. ^ a b Hoffmann, M. (2008). Lepilemur dorsalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 1 January 2009.