Lemur fulvus E. Geoffroy, 1796 . Mag. Encyclop., 1:47.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar, Tamatave .

DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Madagascar, except extreme south; Mayotte (Comoro Isis.).

COMMENT: Sympatric with macaco; see Tattersall, 1976, Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 53:255-262. Includes rufus, albifrons, collaris, sanfordi; see Petter and Petter, 1977, Part 3.1:6; some of these may, however, prove to be distinct species (CPG).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Lemur spp. and U.S. ESA - Endangered as Lemuridae and Lemur spp.