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Sportive Lemurs
Lepilemur
The sportive lemurs are the medium-sized primates that make up the family Lepilemuridae. The family consists of only one extant genus, Lepilemur. They are closely related to the other lemurs and exclusively live on the island of Madagascar. For a time, this family was named Megaladapidae, but the current name was given precedence since the extinct genus Megaladapis was removed from the family.
25 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 25 known species

Hubbard's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur hubbardorum

Red-tailed Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur ruficaudatus

Ankarana Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur ankaranensis

Nosy Be Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur tymerlachsoni

White-footed Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur leucopus

Milne-Edwards' Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur edwardsi
Petter's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur petteri

Randrianasolo's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur randrianasoloi

Small-toothed Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur microdon

Weasel Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur mustelinus

Masoala Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur scottorum

Daraina Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur milanoii

Sahamalaza Peninsula Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur sahamalaza

James' Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur jamesi

Sahafary Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur septentrionalis

Seal's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur seali

Fleurete's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur fleuretae

Grewcock's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur grewcocki

Grey-backed Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur dorsalis

Ahmanson’s Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur ahmansoni

Antafia Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur aeeclis
Holland's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur hollandorum
Betsileo Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur betsileo
Wright's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur wrighti
Otto's Sportive Lemur
speciesLepilemur otto
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43634.