Endangered
Sanford's brown lemur
Eulemur sanfordi
Sanford's brown lemur is a primate in the family Lemuridae (order Primates) — Eulemur sanfordi, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
Sanford's brown lemur is a medium-sized lemur with a head-to-body length of 38–40 cm (15–16 in), a tail length of 50–55 cm (20–22 in), an overall length of 88–95 cm (35–37 in), and a body weight of 1.8–1.9 kg (4.0–4.2 lb). Males have a gray to brown dorsal coat that darkens as it reaches the hands, feet and base of the tail. Ventral coat is pale gray to brownish-gray and the tail is dark gray.
Range and habitat
This species is found at the very northernmost tip of Madagascar, ranging from Antsiranana to Ampanakana. Their populations are concentrated in a few forests – Ankarana, Analamerana and Montagne d'Ambre, with a small disjunct population in the Daraina region. The Manambato river is the southern limit of its range, although hybrids of the Sanford's brown lemur and white-fronted brown lemur appear to occur between Vohemar and Sambava.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The diet of this species consists primarily of fruit, but includes other plant parts (buds, young leaves, flowers) according to seasonal availability, and also includes the occasional invertebrate (e.g., centipedes, millipedes and spiders).
In crisis
Sanford's brown lemur is considered to be Endangered, and among the rarest of the brown lemurs. Primary threats to its survival are habitat loss due to logging and mining, but hunting is starting to become a significant problem as well.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Sanford's brown lemur is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Sanford's brown lemur, Wikidata item Q787633. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
