The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Prosimians

As something of a departure from my previous threads in this vein, and with a view to supplementing the ongoing thread being written by @Chlidonias on the subject of Old World Haplorhines, I felt it appropriate to do a thread on the subject of the Strepsirrhini with his prior consent.

As he has noted elsewhere, Primates as a whole has seen quite extensive taxonomic splitting - as far as the Lemuroidea is concerned I will be following the taxonomy put forward in this book, which is probably the best resource on the subject available to the layman..... or at least the layman unable to afford the second volume of HMW this is oversplit where the mouse lemurs are concerned, in my opinion, but it is nonetheless pretty damn good.

I'll play the Lorisoidea by ear when I get to it.

 

LEMUROIDEA



This lineage comprises five extant families:

CHEIROGALEIDAE - 34 extant species within five genera

DAUBENTONIIDAE - 1 extant species

INDRIIDAE - 19 extant species within three genera

LEMURIDAE - 21 extant species within five genera

LEPILEMURIDAE - 26 extant species within one genus

(Each lineage name has been hyperlinked to the post within which it is discussed)

 

LEMURIDAE



This family comprises 21 extant species within five genera:

Ring-tailed Lemur Lemur catta

Brown Lemur Eulemur fulvus
Sanford's Lemur Eulemur sanfordi
White-Fronted Lemur Eulemur albifrons
Rufous Lemur Eulemur rufus
Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufifrons
Red-collared Lemur Eulemur collaris
White-collared Lemur Eulemur cinereiceps
Black Lemur Eulemur macaco
Sclater's Lemur, Eulemur flavifrons
Crowned Lemur Eulemur coronatus
Red-bellied Lemur Eulemur rubriventer
Mongoose Lemur Eulemur mongoz

Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur Varecia variegata
Red Ruffed Lemur Varecia rubra

Grey Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus
Southern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur meridionalis
Northern Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur occidentalis
Lac Alaotra Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur alaotrensis
Golden Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur aureus

Greater Gentle Lemur Prolemur simus

 

Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)

The range of this species extends across the dry forests and bush of southern and southwestern Madagascar, with a disjunct population located in the Andringitra Massif of the south-east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @overread

 

Brown Lemur (Eulemur fulvus)

The native range of this species comprises three disjunct populations; one in northern Madagascar, one in northwest Madagascar and one in eastern Madagascar. Moreover, an introduced population is present on Mayotte Island in the Comoros; however this population is believed to comprise a hybrid swarm with founders from several Eulemur species.

Monotypic; however the aforementioned Mayotte Lemur was once regarded as a distinct subspecies.

Photo by @alexkant



"Mayotte Lemur" - photo by @Eagle

 

Sanford's Lemur (Eulemur sanfordi)

The range of this species is restricted to the far north of Madagascar, with the southern limit being the Manambato River.

Monotypic.

Photo by @jayjds2



Photo by @Newzooboy

 

White-Fronted Lemur (Eulemur albifrons)

The range of this species extends throughout his species is found throughout much of the rainforest habitat of north-eastern Madagascar, with a small disjunct population to the south in Betampona Nature Reserve.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek



Photo by @jayjds2

 

Rufous Lemur (Eulemur rufus)

The range of this species extends across western and north-western Madagascar.

Monotypic

Photo by @Rick J



Photo by @zoogiraffe

 

Red-fronted Lemur (Eulemur rufifrons)

The range of this taxon comprises a pair of disjunct populations; one in the west of Madagascar from the Tsiribihina River south to the Fiherenana River near Toliara, and one in the east of Madagascar from the Onive and Mangoro Rivers south to the Andringitra Massif.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek



Photo by @Patrick87

 

Red-collared Lemur (Eulemur collaris)

The range of this species extends throughout southeastern Madagascar from the southern limits of the Ambatotsirongorongo transitional forest north to the Mananara River.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66



Photo by @savethelephant

 

White-collared Lemur (Eulemur cinereiceps)

The range of this species is restricted to a thin strip of tropical moist lowland forest in south-east Madagascar running from the Andringitra Massif south to the Mananara River, and covering less than 700 km2 in total.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari



Photo by @peckyboi

 

Black Lemur (Eulemur macaco)

The range of this species is restricted to north-west Madagascar between the Mahavavy River in the north and the Andranomalaza River in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura



Photo by @Lemurs

 

Sclater's Lemur (Eulemur flavifrons)

The range of this species is restricted to north-west Madagascar within the Sahamalaza Peninsula and a narrow stretch of forest on the adjacent mainland between Befotaka in the south and the Manongarivo mountains in the north.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura



Photo by @Toddy

 

Crowned Lemur (Eulemur coronatus)

The range of this species is restricted to the far north of Madagascar from the Cap d’Ambre Peninsula south to the Manambato River.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66



Photo by @Glutton

 

Red-bellied Lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)

The range of this species extends along the thin strip of coastal rainforest in northern and eastern Madagascar, from the Tsaratanana Massif in the north as far south as the Manampatrana River.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Rafiaan



Photo by @Tamanoir

 

Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur mongoz)

The native range of this species is restricted to a handful of disjunct populations in the dry decidious scrub of north-western Madagascar; however an introduced population is present on Mayotte in the Comoros.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura



Photo by @zoo_enthusiast

 

Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)

The range of this species extends throughout lowland to mid-altitude rain forests in eastern Madagascar, from the Antainambalana River in the north to Manombo Special Reserve in the south, with dozens of scattered disjunct populations across this range.

Three subspecies recognised:

V. v. editorum - photo by @Lemurs



V. v. subcincta - photo by @gentle lemur



V. v. variegata - photo by @vogelcommando

 

Red Ruffed Lemur (Varecia rubra)

The range of this species is restricted to the Masoala Peninsula and the region immediately north of the Bay of Antongil in north-eastern Madagascar.

Monotypic.

Photo by @JamesB

 

Grey Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur griseus)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations; one running through eastern Magagascar from the Onibe River in the north to the Mananara River in the south, and one in north-western Madagascar from the Betsiboka River in the north to the Manambolo River in the south.

Three subspecies recognised:

H. g. gilberti
H. g. griseus - photo by @gentle lemur



H. g. ranomafanensis