| Sifakas | |
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| Coquerel's sifaka (P. coquereli) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | Indriidae |
| Genus: | Propithecus Bennett, 1832[1] |
| Type species | |
| Propithecus diadema Bennett, 1832
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| Diversity | |
| 9 species | |
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| Combined distribution of Propithecus[3] | |
| Synonyms | |
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A sifaka (/sɪˈfɑːkə/; Malagasy pronunciation: [ˈsifakə̥] ) is a lemur of the genus Propithecus from the family Indriidae within the order Primates. The name of their family is an onomatopoeia of their characteristic "shi-fak" alarm call.[4] Like all lemurs, they are found only on the island of Madagascar. All species of sifakas are threatened, ranging from endangered to critically endangered.[5]
- ^ 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. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Checklist of CITES Species". CITES. UNEP-WCMC. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ "IUCN 2014". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ Norscia, Ivan; Palagi, Elisabetta (2016). The Missing Lemur Link: An Ancestral Step in the Evolution of Human Behaviour. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-107-01608-8.
- ^ "Almost a third of lemurs and North Atlantic Right Whale now Critically Endangered - IUCN Red List". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-07.