Know Your Primate: Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur

Order: Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Family: Cheirogaleidae Genus: Allocebus Species: Allocebus trichotis Common Name: Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur Administrative Note: Before discussing this week’s primate I would like to mention that the hairy-eared dwarf lemur is the 30th primate covered in this series. Eight of the thirty have been fossils and the remaining twenty-two have been, more [...]

Know Your Primate: Phaner furcifer

Order: Primates Suborder: Strepsirrhini Family: Cheirogaleidae Genus: Phaner Species: Phaner furcifer Common Name: Fork-marked lemur Within the genus Phaner there are four subspecies: Phaner electromontis (Amber Mountain fork-crowned lemur), Phaner furcifer (forked-marked dwarf lemur), Phaner pallescens (western fork-crowned lemur) and Phaner parienti (Sambirano fork-crowned lemur)