Lemur fulvus E. Geoffroy, 1796

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Primates, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 216-243 : 218

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scientific name	Lemur fulvus E. Geoffroy, 1796
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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.

References

Petter, J. - J., R. Albignac, and Y. Rumpler. 1977. Faune de Madagascar. 44. Mammiferes lemuriens. O. R. S. T. O. M., Paris, 513 pp.

Tattersall, I. 1976. Notes on the status of Lemur macaco and Lemur fulvus (Primates, Lemuriformes). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum on Natural History, 53, 2: 257 - 261.