Endangered
Masoala fork-marked lemur
Phaner furcifer
Masoala fork-marked lemur is a dwarf lemur in the family Cheirogaleidae (order Primates) — Phaner furcifer, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
The rest of the pelage is some shade of reddish or brownish grey. It is a small nocturnal animal with large eyes, greyish fur and a long tail.
The head-and-body length is in the range 227 to 285 mm (9 to 11 in), with a tail of 285 to 370 mm (11 to 15 in).
Range and habitat
This lemur is endemic to northeastern Madagascar. Its range extends from the Masoala Peninsula southwards to Toamasina and it is present at altitudes up to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft). It occurs in moist lowland forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Some adults live as monogamous couples, sharing the same nest hole by day but moving about independently for at least part of the night (the male often follows a few metres behind the female), but a few live as solitary bachelors or have ranges overlapping more than one female. The animal moves on all fours, running rapidly along branches, climbing and jumping, mostly at a few metres above the ground, but descending to the forest floor on occasion.
The diet consists mainly of the natural gum of trees in temperate deciduous forests. P. Furcifer is a specialist feeder on the gum that exudes from insect holes on the surface of certain trees, but it supplements its gum diet with insect prey.
In crisis
It is declining in numbers due to habitat destruction, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Masoala fork-marked 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 Masoala fork-marked lemur, Wikidata item Q1150927. 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.
