Critically Endangered
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur
Hapalemur alaotrensis
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur is a primate in the family Lemuridae (order Primates) — Hapalemur alaotrensis, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Its dense, woolly fur is a gray-brown on the back, lighter gray on the face and chest, and chestnut brown on the head and neck. It is about 40 cm (16 in) long, with a similar length tail, and is a brownish-gray colour.
The tail and body of the Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur are both 40 cm (16 in) on average, and it weighs 1.1–1.4 kg (2.4–3.1 lb), with males slightly larger than females.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the reed beds in and around Lac Alaotra, in northeast Madagascar. The population of this lemur has been declining because of habitat destruction and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being "critically endangered".
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur is Critically 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 Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur, Wikidata item Q575671. 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.
