Grewcock's sportive lemur (''Lepilemur grewcockorum''), or the Anjiamangirana sportive lemur, is a
sportive lemur
The sportive lemurs are the medium-sized primates that make up the family Lepilemuridae. The family consists of only one extant genus, ''Lepilemur''. They are closely related to the other lemurs and exclusively live on the island of Madagascar. ...
endemic to
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. It is a medium-sized sportive lemurs with a total length of about , of which are tail.
Grewcock's sportive lemur is found in northwestern Madagascar, living in dry
deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...
forests.
Originally named ''L. grewcocki'', the name was found to be incorrectly formed and was corrected to ''L. grewcockorum'' in 2009.
It was also found to be synonymous with the Manasamody sportive lemur (''Lepilemur manasamody''),
known for its primarily grey-brown coloration and known only from
Ambongabe and
Anjiamangirana I
Anjiamangirana I is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Antsohihy, which is a part of Sofia Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 12,000 in 2001 commune census.
Primar ...
(between the
Sofia River
The Sofia is a river of northwestern Madagascar. It flows through the Sofia Region. The source is at the Tsaratanana Massif at an altitude of 1784 metres. It has a length of .
Its mouth is in the Indian Ocean in the Boriziny-Vaovao District
Bori ...
in the south and the
Maevarano River in the north).
The decision was made because the sampling sites were within of each other, and no geographic barrier could be identified.
References
Sportive lemurs
Mammals described in 2006
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