Back stripe fat-tailed lemur
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The back- striped fat- tailed lemur ( Cheirogaleus sibreei ) is a primate species from the lemur group . The species is so far only known from museum specimens.
Backstripe fat-tailed lemurs are similar to brown fat-tailed lemurs . Their fur is gray-brown on the back, their belly and flanks are whitish-gray. The name-giving feature is a dark eel line on the back. The head is round, the dark circles under the eyes are only weakly pronounced in contrast to other fat- tailed lemurs. The ears are dark and slightly hairy.
The specimens come from three different places in the east of the island of Madagascar , so their habitat is rainforests . Otherwise nothing is known about their way of life, it may be the same as that of the fat-tailed lemur.
The degree of risk is also unclear, the IUCN lists the species under “too little data available” ( data deficient ).
literature
- Nick Garbutt: Mammals of Madagascar. A Complete Guide. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12550-4 .
- Thomas Geissmann : Comparative Primatology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-540-43645-6 .
- Russell A. Mittermeier , Jörg U. Ganzhorn, William R. Konstant, Kenneth Glander, Ian Tattersall , Colin P. Groves , Anthony B. Rylands, Andreas Hapke, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Mireya I. Mayor, Edward Louis jr, Yves Rumpler, Christoph Schwitzer, Rodin Rasoloarison: Lemur Diversity in Madagascar. In: International Journal of Primatology. 29, 2008, ISSN 0164-0291 , pp. 1607-1656.
Web links
- Cheirogaleus sibreei onthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Retrieved April 17, 2009.