Hairy-eared dwarf lemur

Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Cheirogaleidae
Genus: Allocebus
Petter-Rousseaux and Petter, 1967[4]
Species:
A. trichotis
Binomial name
Allocebus trichotis
(Günther, 1875)[3]
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur range[1]
Synonyms

Cheirogaleus trichotis Günther, 1875

The hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis), or hairy-eared mouse lemur, is one of the most scarcely known lemurs.[5] A. trichotis is a nocturnal lemur that is endemic to Madagascar. It was originally named by Albert Günther in 1875 as Cheirogaleus trichotis as part of the Cheirogaleidae family, or the dwarf lemurs. In 1967 Petter-Rousseaux and Petter reassigned the lemur to its own genus and is the now only member of the genus Allocebus. [6] The hairy-eared dwarf lemur was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1989 in a northeastern primary lowland rainforest.[7] The population of these mammals is shown to be severely decreasing and largely fragmented throughout Northern and Eastern Madagascar rainforests; most likely due to hunting, trapping, slash-and-burn agriculture as well as habitat fragmentation.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Louis, E.E.; Frasier, C.L.; Bezandry, N.; Sefczek, T.M.; Bailey, C.A.; Mittermeier, R.A.; Mittermeier, J.; Réné De Roland, L.A. (2020). "Allocebus trichotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T868A115559302. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T868A115559302.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
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  3. ^ Günther, Albert (1875). "Notes on some Mammals from Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 78–80.
  4. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  5. ^ Rakotoarison, Nasolo; Zimmerman, Helmut & Elke (1996). "Hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) discovered in a highland rain forest of eastern Madagascar". Biogéographie de Madagascar. pp. 275–282.
  6. ^ Tattersall, Ian (1982). The Primates of Madagascar. Columbia University Press.
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