Lavasoa dwarf lemur. The Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) is a newly discovered primate.

Its habitat lies in a transitional zone between three ecoregions: dry spiny bush, humid littoral forest, and humid forest. Fewer than 50 individuals are thought to exist. The Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is thus rare and extremely endangered.
The Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur is thus rare and extremely endangered. Quite the same Wikipedia. Fewer than 50 individuals are thought to exist. The Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur, (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis), is a new species of dwarf lemur that is endemic to three small, isolated patches of forest on the southern slopes of the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar. It is a small nocturnal species of lemur found on Madagascar.

It lives in three small, isolated patches of forest on the southern slopes of the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar. Just better.

A new species of dwarf lemur — the Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur — was recently discovered in the south of Madagascar by researchers from the Institute of Anthropology at Mainz University. Der Lavasoa-Fettschwanzmaki (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) ist eine Primatenart aus der Gruppe der Lemuren.Die Art wurde im Jahr 2013 beschrieben und ist ausschließlich aus drei kleinen Waldfragmenten an den südlichen Abhängen der Lavasoa-Berge in der Région Anosy im südöstlichen Madagaskar bekannt.

Hapke and colleagues initially assigned this lemur to the species Cheirogaleus crossleyi. The Lavasoa dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis) is a small, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate and a species of lemur that is endemic to three small, isolated patches of forest on the southern slopes of the Lavasoa Mountains in southern Madagascar. Fewer than 50 individuals are thought to exist. Sie wurde bisher mit dem Rötlichen Fettschwanzmaki (Cheirogaleus crossleyi) … Compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC), Bristol Zoological Society, the International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI), new additions to the list include Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) and Lavasoa Mountains dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus lavasoensis), both of which are threatened by habitat loss. “Cheirogaleus lavasoensis, southern Madagascar.