The Antafia sportive lemur, or red-shouldered sportive lemur (''Lepilemur aeeclis'') 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 has a total length of about , of which are tail.
The AEECL's sportive lemur is found in western 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.
The species was named in honor of the (the A.E.E.C.L.) for its twelve years of support to the research team that discovered it.
It is unusual in having a
specific name based on an acronym.
See also
Other species with acronym-derived names:
* ''
Apterichtus ansp''
* ''
Klossiella quimrensis''
* ''
Turbonilla musorstom''
References
Sportive lemurs
Mammals described in 2017
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