Lepilemur ruficaudatus

A. Grandidier, 1867

Red-tailed Sportive Lemur

Also as Red-tailed Weasel Lemur.
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Location:Madagascar, Menabe region (formerly part of Toliara province), Kirindy Private ReserveDate taken:20 June 2009Description:Also as Red-tailed Weasel Lemur.

Distribution :

SW Madagascar, from about 19°45’S to 23°S, and along the Onilahy River.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 2908

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Infraorder: Lemuriformes
Family: Lepilemuridae
Genus: Lepilemur

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Grandidier, A. 1867-07. M. Alfred Grandidier nous a adressé la lettre suivante le 25 juin 1867. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée (2)19:254-256.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2704436

Original name as described

Lepilemur ruficaudatus

Other common names

Red-tailed Weasel Lemur

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1872.8.19.6, MNHN-ZM-MO-1867-583

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1867-583 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/33ac7b86-8bd1-42dd-9ec2-007fa631be2b

Type locality

Madagascar, Morondava.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001031

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 3 names and synonyms.

Lepilemur ruficaudatus

A. Grandidier, 1867

Family

Lepilemuridae

Root name

ruficaudatus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1872.8.19.6, MNHN-ZM-MO-1867-583

Type kind

syntypes

Original type locality

Madagascar

Type locality

Madagascar.

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1867-583 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/33ac7b86-8bd1-42dd-9ec2-007fa631be2b

Authority page

256

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2704436

Authority publication

Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée

Name usages

Milne-Edwards (1871:224) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69142)
Schwarz (1931:420) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14220)
Allen (1939:130, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782640) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
Tattersall (1973:100) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5036)
Corbet & Hill (1980:83) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:219) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Groves (1993:246) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69008)
Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)
O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:112) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
Mittermeier, Ganzhorn, Konstant, Glander, Tattersall, Groves, Rylands, Hapke, Ratsimbazafy, Mayor, Louis, Rumpler, Schwitzer & Rasoloarison (2008:1611) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/4966)
Mittermeier, Rylands & Wilson (2013:74) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59513)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #11621) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #11621) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001031) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11621/115566869) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Lepilemur pallidicauda

J. E. Gray, 1873

Family

Lepilemuridae

Root name

pallidicauda

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1872.8.19.7, MNHN-ZM-MO-1867-583 (= MNHN:type:134a) (= MNHN "122"), MNHN-ZM-MO-1867-584 (= MNHN:type:134b) (= MNHN "128"), MNHN-ZM-MO-1867-585 (= MNHN:type:134c) (= MNHN "129")

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Madagascar (Berarding, 1871).

Type locality

Madagascar.

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/5b21a522-e1a6-4c21-9ab1-3471431e73f8 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c23ab807-45c4-4278-a526-6fe93af1fa63

Authority page

850

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28612334

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8549)

Lepidolemur ruficaudatus:

Trouessart, 1904

Family

Lepilemuridae

Root name

ruficaudatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

35

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422821

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Trouessart (1904:35, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422821) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Elliot (1913:122, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40602632) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35489)

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