The small-toothed sportive lemur is a primate species in the family Lepilemuridae. It was first described in 1894 by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major. It lives in the Ankafana Forest in the eastern districts of the former Betsileo province in central Madagascar.
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The small-toothed sportive lemur is a primate species in the family Lepilemuridae. The species lives in dense rainforest in southeastern Madagascar. It was first described in 1894 by Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major. It is the only eastern Malagasy lemur that is more closely related to western than to other eastern species. Due to recent taxonomic changes and a lack of clarity about its population size and range, it was listed as \”Data Deficient\” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2008. This was changed to \”Endangered\” in 2014, on the basis of a small, fragmented and shrinking range, as well as a declining population. Its primary threats are habitat loss to slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting. It can be found in Ranomafana and Andringitra National Parks. It weighs between 0. 9 and 1. 2 kg and measures 55 to 64 cm from head to tail. Its fur is mostly reddish-brown or chestnut color, with a dark stripe running from its head down its back. Like other sportiveLemurs, it is nocturnal, sleeping in concealed tangles of vegetation and tree holes.
It eats leaves, fruits, and flowers. It has 24 autosomes; the autosomes include eight that are submetacentric and three smaller acrocentric pairs. Both the small-rocentric and sportivelemur species shared the same total chromosomal rearrangements, indicating that the two shared two if the same species, if the total chromosomes were rearranged, the two species would be the same. The small lemur species was the most genetically distinct from the weasel weasel lemur, despite their appearance of being the same size and shape. It also has the same genetic make-up as the sportive Lemur species, despite the total chromosome rearrangement. It lives in the Ankafana Forest in the eastern districts of the former Betsileo province in central Madagascar, and is solitary and eats leaves and fruits. Its species name microdon is derived from the Ancient Greek micro-, meaning’small’ and -odon, meaning ‘tooth’ The species was considered a subspecies or taxonomic synonym of the weasels for much of the 20th century.
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