Golden bamboo lemur

Golden bamboo lemur
In Ranomafana National Park
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Lemuridae
Genus: Hapalemur
Species:
H. aureus
Binomial name
Hapalemur aureus
Meier et al., 1987[3]
Distribution of H. aureus[1]

The golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), bokombolomena or varibolomena in Malagasy, is a medium-sized bamboo lemur endemic to south-eastern Madagascar.

It is able to ingest twelve times as much cyanide as would be considered lethal for other species of its size.

  1. ^ a b Wright, P.; Hearthstone, E.; Donohue, M.E.; Andrianoely, D.; Otero-Jiménez, B.J.; Lauterbur, M.E. (2020). "Hapalemur aureus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T9672A115564398. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T9672A115564398.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference CITES was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Hapalemur aureus". In 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. 116. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.