Endangered
White-footed sportive lemur
Lepilemur leucopus
White-footed sportive lemur is a primate in the family Lepilemuridae (order Primates) — Lepilemur leucopus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
The white-footed sportive lemur, white-footed weasel lemur, or dry-bush weasel lemur is a lemur in the family Lepilemuridae, the sportive lemurs. It is similar in appearance to other lemurs in the family, with a grey back, a pale grey to white ventral side, and a light brown tail.
Range and habitat
It is a nocturnal animal that moves through the forest using a vertical clinging and leaping technique. It is endemic to Madagascar, inhabiting the southern subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss due to agricultural practices and charcoal production.
Populations are protected in Andohahela National Park and the Berenty Private Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The use of this species's habitat as pasture for livestock has become a threat to its survival.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
White-footed sportive 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 White-footed sportive lemur, Wikidata item Q747834. 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.
